Cash bail eliminated in the State of Illinois
NORMAL, Ill. – The state of Illinois officially ended cash bail on September 18, implementing the most controversial section of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s SAFE-T Act. The Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act was signed in 2021 but its biggest change to the criminal justice system did not go into effect until this week. From the time the act was signed in 2021 till today, the act was often […]