Illinois ended cash bail statewide in September 2023 after litigation against the law was struck down by state Supreme Court.

There’s no love lost between outgoing McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally and an advocacy group that helped lead the effort to eliminate cash bail in Illinois. Kenneally last week ...

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is exiting. But Lake County’s Eric Rinehart, after beating a tough Republican, is ...

Recently, Illinois celebrated the one-year anniversary ... which profits only because of the persistence of cash bail, makes claims about its importance — claims that the data inevitably will ...

Legislation set for a committee hearing Tuesday would let Michigan courts decide not to impose cash bail on defendants ...

A 40-year-old Sparta man will be arraigned Dec. 10 in Monroe County Circuit Court for first-degree intentional homicide.

Illinois doesn‘t know is and isn’t following the mandate. In 2021, lawmakers passed the SAFE-T Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform that ended cash bail, changed police training policies ...

Criminal justice reform, assault weapons and driving tests for seniors were among the issues candidates for the Illinois ...

Illinois State Rep. Kam Buckner on Feb. 13 ... For example, he backs reinstating cash bail, which the SAFE-T Act eliminated, and halting all spending on undocumented immigrants.

(The Center Square) – A full year into the state’s end of cash bail, a suburban county state’s attorney says the law has been “an abject failure” for his county. Illinois ended cash ...