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Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
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Working to interrupt cycles of poverty, mass incarceration, and racial injustices perpetrated by all aspects of the legal system. 💚 RT ≠ Endorsements.
Jul 27, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune published a column by Paul Vallas that is riddled with misinformation, contradictions, and includes several harmful inaccuracies.

Since they didn't fact-check the author's argument, we will. 🧵👉 Mr. Vallas' most glaring contradiction is his advocacy for reintroducing money bond in "some cases," while also understanding that cash bail is a "crude, inexact substitute for individual...decisions" that unfairly advantages the wealthy and criminalizes the poor. /🧵
Restore cash bail for some cases. Legislatively calibrate it to the offense so that it can be denied to serious and habitual criminal offenders. This should also include anyone who attacks a police officer and those who threaten or contact witnesses or victims.
Full candor requires acknowledging that cash bail has long been used as a proxy by overwhelmed courts as a crude, inexact substitute for individual bond decisions. Now money is off the table: While the law does allow judges to make decisions on the basis of the charges and the suspect’s criminal history, the question is whether we will have created and funded the necessary infrastructure for the effective exercise of that discretion.
Aug 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Cook County's consolidated Domestic Violence (DV) Courthouse opened in Chicago in 2005, but there has never been a comprehensive evaluation of its efficacy...until now.

Since early 2020, we've been evaluating the DV Division and today we release findings.
chicagoappleseed.org/2022/08/16/sli… To get here, we interviewed 35+ anti-domestic and anti-gender-based violence advocates, lawyers, and Cook County Judges and court-watched over 188 hearings in the DV Division.

📌 Report: ChicagoAppleseed.org/DV-Report
📌 Summary: ChicagoAppleseed.org/DV-Summary
Sep 23, 2021 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 For the first time in years, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County is steadily growing: today, over 8,700 people are on electronic monitoring (EM) or in jail.

Our new report outlines 10 facts about the Cook County Sheriff's pretrial surveillance program: 🧵FACT 1: The number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail or on electronic monitoring (EM) has risen 23% since April 2020.

In August of this year there was a notable decline in the EM population, but even with this decrease, *31% more people are on EM than in March 2020.*
Dec 10, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Chicago Appleseed's @Staudt_Sarah and @justinhchae looked at 6 years of Chicago Police arrest records - over half-a-million cases - to determine what, if any, are CPD's patterns of #IncommunicadoDetention.

Many questions remain, but here's what we know so far: On average, it takes the police about 3 hours from the initial time of arrest to lock someone up at a CPD station.

Still, we found over 6,282 cases of people held longer than 10 hours - for up to 2 days - BEFORE the Chicago Police booked them.