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Today, the Joliet Police Department and Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow held a press conference regarding 21 gun, drug, burglary, and retail theft-related arrests as part of “Operation [...]

In 2016, a small group of base-building organizations, faith leaders, policy experts, service providers, lawyers, and abolitionist community organizers came together to demand Cook County end its [...]

In September, Illinois successfully ended money bond with the implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act. Since then, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail and on house arrest [...]

Illinois’ chronic underfunding of public defense is a civil rights crisis. In jurisdictions across the state, public defenders are tasked with overwhelming caseloads and are often deprived of the [...]

For decades, conservatives have pushed the idea that there is something inherently immoral or dangerous about being LGBTQ+. In the last two years, nearly one thousand anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been [...]

Today, the Illinois legislature passed the Pretrial Success Act as part of the Illinois state budget. Building upon the successful implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act, which made Illinois [...]

Since the Pretrial Fairness Act was implemented last fall, there has been a significant increase in the number of appeals filed. The appeals are mostly from accused people who want an appellate [...]

In the six months since the Pretrial Fairness Act took effect, multiple state agencies have called for additional resources to support the law’s implementation. The Illinois Network for [...]

On March 18, the Illinois Supreme Court made a six month extension to its order allowing courts around the state to conduct pretrial hearings via videoconferencing technology. The Pretrial [...]

In Illinois and all over the country, transgender people are systematically disadvantaged within the pretrial legal system. Black trans women are particularly impacted. Disparities in economic [...]