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Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago Council of Lawyers have released our new report: When You're a Hammer, Everything's a Nail: Examining the "Progressive Prosecutor" Movement and Possibilities for Future Reform. This report is a high-level examination of ideas behind the na...

Last year, when he was unable to "keep the people in his custody safe," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart implemented punitive measures like prohibiting visitors to Cook County Jail from bringing in paper, attributing overdose deaths to paper soaked with narcotics and poisons. There were 17 deaths in 202...

Entered at the end of September 2022, a newly signed consent decree, #LetUseBreathe Collective v. City of  Chicago, means people detained by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) must be given access to phones and lawyers in all detention facilities. This measure means to combat the coercive inte...

This week, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts gave testimony at two Cook County Board of Commissioners meetings on September 20 and September 22 to warn against the harms caused by electronic surveillance.  At the first Board of Commissioners meeting on September 20, our Director of Po...

In late 2020, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts contracted with the Cook County Justice Advisory Council (JAC) to provide technical assistance for a review of the pretrial electronic monitoring (EM) programs in Cook County. The aims of the study included developing strategies to keep people a...