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HOLD FOR STORY BY SARA BURNETT - In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Lavette Mayes talks with Max Suchan who co-founded the Chicago Community Bond Fund in Chicago. Mayes, was arrested for the first time after she got into a fight with her mother-in-law, spent more than a year in Cook County Jail unable to come up with $25,000 needed to post bond. The mother of two, said she "lost everything before the CCBF got her out. Mayes resolved her aggravated battery case a few months after she got out and was sentenced to one day in prison, with credit for the 571 days already served. (AP Photo by Sara Burnett)
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HOLD FOR STORY BY SARA BURNETT - In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Lavette Mayes talks with Max Suchan who co-founded the Chicago Community Bond Fund in Chicago. Mayes, was arrested for the first time after she got into a fight with her mother-in-law, spent more than a year in Cook County Jail unable to come up with $25,000 needed to post bond. The mother of two, said she "lost everything before the CCBF got her out. Mayes resolved her aggravated battery case a few months after she got out and was sentenced to one day in prison, with credit for the 571 days already served. (AP Photo by Sara Burnett)
