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An independent expert who has monitored the mental health care was terminated reducing the transparency around an often failing system.
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, cash bail will be abolished in Illinois. The measure that will eliminate it has been on the books since early 2021, giving the justice system two years to plan for the major overhaul of the state’s pretrial detention system.
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With more than 62,000 attorneys registered to practice in Illinois, it might seem like there's plenty of legal representation to go around. But that statistic masks a severe shortage of solo practitioners.
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McLean County circuit court and all the other courts in the state are scrambling to meet an end-of-year deadline to implement the controversial Safe-T Act criminal justice reform bill. The end of cash bail is one of the well-known provisions of the law, but there are a lot more pieces of it that will have big effects.
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A federal judge has sentenced a former Ford County resident to 14 years in prison for a variety of crimes related to a militia group.
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Amid a campaign season in which every constitutional office and seat in the Illinois General Assembly will be up for vote, rising crime and a landmark criminal justice reform passed in 2021 have become dominant topics for Republicans trying to loosen Democrats’ hold on state government.
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Bloomington police have started to focus more traffic enforcement in areas where crashes are most frequent.
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The McLean County Jail has revived a program that allows incarcerated people to connect with their children through reading.
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The McLean County Jail has revived a program that allows incarcerated people to connect with their children through reading.
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Two criminal justice advocates who helped craft Illinois’ new criminal justice reform law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in February say the legislation might…