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Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Criminal Justice Research

A light at the end of the tunnel
Posted inViolence

An End to Cash Bond in Illinois is Only the Beginning of Restorative Justice

by Nikki Roberts December 9, 2020January 13, 2021

ast month, state Senator Robert Peters and Representative Justin Slaughter announced a bill known as the Pretrial Fairness Act that, if passed, would make Illinois the second state to end the use of money bonds after New Jersey. In Cook County, where about a quarter of the county’s detainees are kept incarcerated because they cannot […]

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