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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.
After the Pretrial Fairness Act went into effect in September 2023, it became the first state to abolish cash bail. That move was "unprecedented," said Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and ...
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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Feb. 14—Legislation focused on changing pretrial detention conditions moved a step forward in the Roundhouse late Tuesday evening. As explained by bill sponsor Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced her office’s new cash bail and pre-trial detention policies. Jenkins, who replaced ousted former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, revealed ...
Additions, deletions, and changes to the ILCS are done through the Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), which files the changes as provided for by Public Act 87-1005. [ 3 ] The compilation is an official compilation by the state and is entirely in the public domain for purposes of federal copyright law; anyone may publish the statutes ...