After an initial decline in beds filled at the McLean County jail, numbers have creeped back up since cashless bail began in ...
Illinois' Pre-Trial Fairness Act leads to a spike in Kane County Jail's population, raising budget concerns and questioning ...
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 ...
Kane County officials are calling out what they say is an unintended impact from Illinois' cashless bail system.
In a nutshell, the SSFA just made more than 3 million public sector retirees happy — especially teachers, firefighters, ...
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 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Thursday marked the second anniversary of the Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolished cash bail in ...
The only ‘beneficiaries’ of our cash bond system are the commercial bail bond industry and the Wall Street insurance ...
The NDAA passed the House of Representatives by a largely partisan 231-196 vote, led by the Republican majority. The ...