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The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
Cook County to request pretrial detention in violent cases Cook County's new state's attorney has announced a change to the county's policy involving the controversial SAFE-T Act. Eileen O'Neill ...
Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial after they have been arrested and charged with an offence. A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest.
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Sexual abuse was particularly egregious in the Joliet detention center, according to the DOJ report.
The first U.S. pretrial services program was the Manhattan Bail Project. Established in 1961, the program was designed to help defendants who were unable to post the financial surety bond conditions set in New York City.
Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the state of Illinois and Cook County. 100+ new child sex abuse lawsuits ...
This category contains articles about depriving people of their liberty in any context, whether as pre-trial detention, punishment for committing crimes, extrajudicial punishment, prisoners of war, arbitrary arrest and detention, internment, extraordinary rendition, extrajudicial detention, forced disappearances (temporary or permanent), or otherwise.