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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.
At the community level, pretrial detention has been found to negatively affect local labor markets, especially in areas with relatively high percentages of Black residents. [67] Whether a result of pre-trial detention or not, incarceration has adverse individual-level effects, resulting in many defendants' inability to maintain employment ...
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May 8—Changes to New Mexico's pretrial release and detention rules that went into effect Wednesday drew mixed reactions. Some top prosecutors and the governor applauded the revision as an ...
California's county jails function like county jails throughout the United States: they are used to incarcerate people pre-trial, through a trial and sentencing, and for some sentences of commitment. The majority of people incarcerated in California's county jails have not been sentenced (they are pre-trial and have not been convicted of a crime).
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, operates seven detention facilities in California. Immigrant rights advocates have continued to sound the alarm on conditions in these facilities ...