Pre-trial Fairness Act Archives - The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/pre-trial-fairness-act/ Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:20:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Pre-trial Fairness Act Archives - The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/pre-trial-fairness-act/ 32 32 163009088 No Cash Bail in Illinois:  Pretrial Fairness Act in Effect, Abolishing Cash Bail.  Here’s How the Cash Bail System has Changed, and What that Means for the Accused Awaiting Trial. https://www.chicagoreporter.com/no-cash-bail-in-illinois-pretrial-fairness-act-in-effect-abolishing-cash-bail-heres-how-the-cash-bail-system-has-changed-and-what-that-means-for-the-accused-awaiting-trial/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/no-cash-bail-in-illinois-pretrial-fairness-act-in-effect-abolishing-cash-bail-heres-how-the-cash-bail-system-has-changed-and-what-that-means-for-the-accused-awaiting-trial/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:20:39 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7847307 Following a highly contentious election cycle last year in which Republicans used the Pretrial Fairness Act to decry Democrats as being “soft on crime,” a series of legal challenges from state’s attorneys and sheriffs delayed the law’s implementation while the Illinois Supreme Court weighed its constitutionality. In a partisan 5-2 decision in July, the court’s […]

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