After an initial decline in beds filled at the McLean County jail, numbers have creeped back up since cashless bail began in ...

Elgie Sims of Chicago emphasizes the need for comprehensive data, saying, "I want to have as much data as possible." Ben Ruddell from the Illinois ACLU believes the system is functioning as intended ...

Illinois' Pre-Trial Fairness Act leads to a spike in Kane County Jail's population, raising budget concerns and questioning ...

Kane County officials are calling out what they say is an unintended impact from Illinois' cashless bail system.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Thursday marked the second anniversary of the Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolished cash bail in ...

Cook County celebrates two years since abolishing money bonds, highlighting fairer pretrial system and lower crime rates.

Thursday marks two years since Illinois eliminated cash bail as part of the controversial SAFE-T Act. The Pretrial Fairness ...

It's been two years since Illinois became the first state to eliminate bond money as a condition for pre-trial release. Some ...

In a nutshell, the SSFA just made more than 3 million public sector retirees happy — especially teachers, firefighters, ...