Illinois criminal justice reform law eliminates bail, but doesn’t erase bias in ‘risk assessment’ for pretrial imprisonment
By Leonna McAfee & Rodricka Taylor Medill Reports Posting bail to stay out of prison when charged with a crime will be a thing of the past in Illinois as of January 2023. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pre-Trial Fairness Act (HB3653) into law earlier this year. It ends a pretrial detention system that punishes those […]
