Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examine the process of bail hearings according to a new movement to banish ... or likely to run away. Illinois's law mandates that for the ...

(WTVO) — On January 1st, 2025, new laws passed in the Illinois statehouse and signed ... which abolished cash bail, the state has ordered the judicial branch of government to create an Office ...

Even judges who don't like the new law—Bertani among them—are following it. Crime has not exploded; nor have the lengthier detention hearings wrecked the legal system.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation examine the process of bail hearings according to a new movement to banish cash bail. Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail ...