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The Illinois Supreme Court found a major criminal justice reform bill was indeed constitutional on Tuesday, which will see the state end cash bail in the next 60 days.
On December 31, 2022, the Court issued a temporary stay on the provision ending cash bail pending its review, "in order to maintain consistent pretrial procedures throughout Illinois." [53] On July 18, 2023, the Court upheld the provision ending cash bail. [54] The provision took effect on September 18, 2023. [16] [5]
Flonard Wrencher, a black man in his 60s who lives in Chicago and goes by Flo, knows firsthand how damaging Illinois's old cash bail system was. He described himself as "a working guy," proudly ...
Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release from jail on Tuesday when the state Supreme Court upheld the constitutionally of the law ...
In addition to no cash bail, what all is in the SAFE-T Act? ... No cash bail in Illinois starts in 2023: What to know about purge law. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Illinois' top court on Tuesday upheld a 2021 state law that eliminated cash bail and ordered that it take effect in September, clearing the way for the state to implement one of the most sweeping ...
More than six months into implementation of a first-in-the-nation law ending cash bail in Illinois, jail populations are down statewide and at the Sangamon County Jail seen on Thursday, May 2, 2024.
Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for ...