The end to cash bail in Illinois was supposed to go into effect on Jan. 1, but the state's highest court has put that provision of a state law on hold for now.
The Illinois Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Tuesday about whether a state law ending cash bail is constitutional.
The end of cash bail in Illinois was a key provision of the SAFE-T Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in February 2021.Kankakee County Judge Thomas Cunnington found that the pretrial release portions of the SAFE-T Act violate the separation of powers clause of the Illinois Constitution
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