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 ...
After an initial decline in beds filled at the McLean County jail, numbers have creeped back up since cashless bail began in ...
State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke's prosecutors are routinely asking judges to keep suspects in jail until trial when ...
The only ‘beneficiaries’ of our cash bond system are the commercial bail bond industry and the Wall Street insurance ...
Thursday marks two years since Illinois eliminated cash bail as part of the controversial SAFE-T Act. The Pretrial Fairness ...
The Social Security Fairness Act has repealed two major provisions — The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) — that will provide financial relief for some. Here’s ...