More than 120 organizations from across Illinois have sent an open letter to the Illinois General Assembly calling on them to protect the Pretrial Fairness Act and oppose SB4228, the State’s Attorneys proposal for gutting this historic legislation. The Pretrial Fairness Act was designed to protect an individual’s right to the presumption of innocence and to address racial disparities in our pretrial system. The changes included in SB4228, however, would deny all Illinoisians those fundamental constitutional rights. If passed, the amendments in SB4228 would further fuel mass incarceration, worsen racial disparities, and create a pretrial system that is far worse than the one in place today.

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