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Thanks to the Pretrial Success Grants Program, Radical Hospitality Ministries in DuPage County has been providing essential services for people awaiting trial.This program has helped hundreds of [...]

Thanks to a tremendous outpouring of opposition from community members and organizations, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office withdrew its request to purchase BriefCam for monitoring people [...]

Ten years ago today, a small group of community, faith, and policy organizations came together to explore forming a coalition aimed at ending money bond and reducing pretrial jailing in Cook [...]

Tomorrow, the Cook County Board of Commissioners Technology Committee is set to consider a proposal from the Sheriff’s Office to obtain Briefcam for monitoring people incarcerated in Cook County [...]

For a third election cycle in a row, Illinois Republicans are attempting to gin up fear through lies about pretrial reforms in an effort to distract from their party’s historic minorities in the [...]

The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice sends our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew. We continue to keep the injured police officer in our [...]

Upon taking office, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke implemented policy changes that are contributing to a rise in pretrial jailing. Researchers at the Loyola Chicago Center for [...]

As a new year in the Illinois General Assembly gets underway, more than 100 advocacy, health and human services, faith and community organizations sent a letter to Governor Pritzker and the [...]

On January 8th, the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives held a hearing in which they discussed two reactionary and dangerous bills aimed specifically at increasing [...]

Five years ago today, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Pretrial Fairness Act as part of the SAFE-T Act. For more than five years leading up to that historic moment, communities across our [...]