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When the Pretrial Fairness Act goes into effect in 2023, it will improve community safety, reduce pretrial jailing and end wealth-based incarceration but only if Illinois’ courts properly [...]

One year ago today, the Illinois legislature voted in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act, a key component of the criminal justice package bill known as the SAFE-T Act. This historic legislation [...]

Yesterday, Mayor Lightfoot held a press conference about gun violence in Chicago and again called for people to be jailed pretrial based solely on the accusations they face in court. This harmful [...]

Last summer, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Black Lives Matter protesters in Winnebago County who found themselves jailed for three days without bond hearings after being arrested at a [...]

The Champaign County board is poised to vote on a proposal to expand the county jail, which would cost the county $20 million dollars. Alarmingly, $5 million of this funding would come from [...]

On January 1, 2022, portions of the Pretrial Fairness Act will go into effect and expand the rights of people incarcerated in their homes on electronic monitoring (EM). Beginning next year, [...]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we would like to honor both survivors of intimate partner violence and those who have lost their lives, as well as the organizations working to [...]

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to hear his appeal of the lawsuit challenging unsafe conditions inside the Cook County Jail during the [...]

Opponents to ending money bond have long said that if people released pretrial don’t have money on the line, they’ll have no reason to return to court. A new report on the financial impact of [...]

Four years ago this week, General Order 18.8A went into effect and began reducing the number of people incarcerated pretrial in Cook County Jail due to unaffordable money bonds. This historic [...]