{"id":3490,"date":"2020-04-29T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2020-04-29T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T21:15:37","slug":"eliminate-money-bonds-combat-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/eliminate-money-bonds-combat-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating Money Bond is an Evidence-Based, Common Sense Approach to Combat Mass Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"183\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/square-collab-for-footer.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3484\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> published an attack on bail reform in Cook County. Today\u2019s article attacked two respected organizations, the Chicago Community Bond Fund and The Bail Project, a national bond fund. As leaders in bail reform efforts, Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers have and will continue to stand side-by-side with Chicago Community Bond Fund and all of our Coalition to End Money Bond partners as we collectively fight for pretrial justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Money bond is one of the\nkey barriers to an equitable pretrial justice system in Illinois. It is\nunequivocally unjust and unfair to jail someone simply because they cannot\nafford to pay a few thousand dollars. The <em>Tribune<\/em> article criticizes organizations\nand public figures that champion pretrial fairness. It is not only an attack on the missions of these two organizations, but on the\nprinciples of pretrial justice in general.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> wrongly conflates\npretrial arrests, missed court dates, criminal history, and post-conviction\narrests into their opinion about whether individuals should be bonded out &#8211; all\nwithout any consideration of the simple fact that <em>a judge sets a bond amount\nwith the intention it be paid.<\/em> A few misleading examples of supposedly \u201cdangerous\u201d outcomes have\nnothing to do with the necessity to radically change a system by which people\nare deprived of liberty <em>before<\/em> a conviction. Using anecdotes about arrests as \u201cevidence\u201d of problems with bail\nreform is irresponsible journalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookcountystatesattorney.org\/about\/data-sao-latest-updates\"><strong>State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s publicly-available data<\/strong><\/a><strong>, about a third of people charged with felonies in Cook County ultimately\nare found not guilty or have their cases dismissed. An arrest is not a\nconviction. An allegation is not proof. Most importantly, no person should be\ndefined solely by their relationship to the criminal justice system.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201c<em>if we don\u2019t\nlock them up, the violence will increase<\/em>\u201d argument has been continually\ndisproven. The \u201cwar on drugs\u201d forced society to acknowledge that imprisoning\nhuge numbers of Black, brown, and poor people does nothing to reduce violence,\ndrug use, or addiction problems. Why are we approaching bond reform with the\nexact same mentality\u2014except for with people who are only <em>accused<\/em>, not\neven <em>convicted<\/em>? This logic is rooted in the racist policies of the\n1990s, only applied to another class of crimes in a different context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bail reform efforts, including the elimination of money bond, are highly popular across the country and have had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfa-associates.com\/publications\/reduce\/Cook_County_Bail_Report.pdf\">impressive success<\/a> in Cook County over the last decade. Working with local organizations (including Chicago Community Bond Fund) and the Office of the Chief Judge, we have helped reduce the Cook County Jail population by thousands\u2014saving millions of dollars in taxpayer money and reuniting families and communities after arrests. We expect statewide legislative action soon to make Illinois a leader in pretrial fairness; meanwhile, crime in Cook County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfa-associates.com\/publications\/reduce\/Cook_County_Bail_Report.pdf\">continues to decrease<\/a> and the use of expensive, ineffective long-term prison sentences is dramatically dwindling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an era where facts and evidence are\nincreasingly discounted in public discourse, it is deeply disappointing to see\nthe well-respected <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> engaged in unsupported\nfear-mongering. Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers fully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoappleseed.org\/our-blog\/pretrial-fairness-beyond-ending-money-bond\/\">support<\/a> the elimination of money\nbonds as an evidence-based, common sense approach to fight mass incarceration.\nWe stand in solidarity with the Chicago Community Bond Fund as they <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagobond.org\/2020\/04\/29\/chicago-tribune-launches-racist-attack-on-bail-funds-while-thousands-sit-in-cook-county-jail-at-risk-of-dying-from-covid-19\/\">fight to reduce harm<\/a> for communities\noverwhelmingly impacted by racist, unjust criminal policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the Chicago Tribune published an attack on bail  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[95,13],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration-for-justice","tag-covid-19","tag-criminal-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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