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Illinois Supreme Court upholds law eliminating cash bail, sets Sept. 18 as start date for new system
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the state to become the first in the...
Illinois set to become 1st state to eliminate cash bail
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn Jan. 1, Illinois is set to become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail, a...
Big news for cash bail critics: Illinois just became first state to abolish it
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a major criminal justice reform law is constitutional,...
Illinois Supreme Court halts plans to eliminate cash bail and other pretrial court changes
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJust hours before the elimination of cash bail and other pretrial policies were supposed to go into...
Illinois is first state to eliminate cash bail, a penalty affecting low-income communities most
Associated Press via AOL· 10 months agoIllinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial...
Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt took four and a half months for Shannon Ross’ life to unravel. Ross, who describes himself as...
‘What Illinois did is really truly on another level’: Despite legal limbo, elimination of cash bail...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Illinois criminal justice system is set for a major makeover beginning Sunday, replacing a...
Illinois prosecutors ask a judge to quash law that is set to eliminate cash bail on Jan. 1
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLess than two weeks before cash bail is set to be abolished in Illinois, opponents of the measure on...
Illinois' Plan To Eliminate Cash Bail Remains Uncertain Following Judge's Ruling
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJust a few days before the measure was set to go into effect, a judge found the pretrial release...
Depending on staff, Illinois public defenders prepare differently for the end of cash bail
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllinois on Monday will become the first state to fully abolish cash bail through an act of the...