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Advocates’ Letter to Cook County Circuit Court: Seal Eviction Court Filings to Promote Fair and Accessible Justice

Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago Council of Lawyers have joined Access Living, Beyond Legal Aid, Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, the Chicago Urban League, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, Lega...

Waiting for Justice: An examination of the Cook County Criminal Court backlog in the age of COVID-19

The content in this article was originally submitted as testimony to the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ Criminal Justice Committee meeting on January 27, 2020, about peoples' lengths of stay in Cook County Jail and on electronic monitoring, and the effect COVID-19 has had on the growing jail po...

A Win for Public Health: IDPH’s Phase 1b of “COVID-19 Vaccination Plan” includes People in Jails and Prisons

On December 4, 2020, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) released their "COVID-19 Vaccination Plan," which indicated priority status of special groups - such as healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities. Troublingly, people incarcerated and corrections staff - a group...

Letter to IDPH: Give People Incarcerated in Illinois Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine

On December 21, 2020, Chicago Appleseed, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the Coalition to End Money Bond, and over 60 other community-based organizations throughout Illinois sent a letter to Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), requesting that people incarcer...

As the Pandemic Rages, the Cook County Jail Population Grows

As we embark on the ‘third-wave’ of the pandemic in the United States, we have tragically learned many things. First and importantly, we have learned that the best and only truly effective way to prevent the spread of this airborne virus is by physically distancing ourselves from others. We have als...

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