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Last month, Governor Pritzker signed the Pretrial Services Act (725 ILCS 185), which requires the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to establish pretrial services in counties where [...]

More than 150 faith leaders from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and other communities across Illinois have signed an open letter calling on state legislators to defend pretrial justice reforms and [...]

Last year, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Pretrial Fairness Act, ending money bail across Illinois.   Unsurprisingly, law enforcement decried the new law. Perhaps the most [...]

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 [...]