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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has limited incarcerated people’s access to physical books and letters in the name of preventing overdoses from drugs transported into the jail on paper. Digital [...]

In the summer of 2020, Lee joined people across the US in the streets to protest the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Like thousands of others, Lee was arrested and told he [...]

Once again, the quality of life for people incarcerated in Cook County Jail is getting worse. On April 7, 2023, Sheriff Dart enacted a policy that limits incarcerated people to three books per [...]

The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice is in solidarity with New Yorkers defending pretrial justice reforms from rollbacks. The people of New York state deserve a pretrial system that [...]

Today, the Illinois Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by Illinois State’s Attorneys challenging the constitutionality of the Pretrial Fairness Act, a law passed by [...]

Today, State’s Attorneys suing over the Pretrial Fairness Act filed a brief with the Illinois Supreme Court in response to the Attorney General’s appeal of a Kankakee County judge’s December 2022 [...]

Today, the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and more than 400 signers, represented by the law firm Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. and the ACLU of Illinois, filed an amicus brief [...]

Updated January 4, 2022 On New Years Eve, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an order directing counties across our state to delay implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act until the court has [...]

On Sunday, January 1, 2023, the Pretrial Fairness Act will take effect in Illinois. A Kankakee County circuit judge ruled that he believes the law is unconstitutional and today issued a final [...]

Yesterday, a Kankakee County judge sided with the 58 State’s Attorneys and sheriffs suing Illinois over the SAFE-T Act. While the Kankakee court’s ruling on the state’s attorneys’ [...]