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The SAFE-T Act's passage made Illinois the first state in the United States to abolish cash bail as the standard of pretrial detention. [23] [24] House Speaker Emanuel Chris Welch framed the Act as part of a broader effort "to remedy inequalities" in light of the "past year's reckoning of racial injustice."
Through the SAFE-T Act, a criminal justice reform bill, the end of cash bail will begin in less than three months. Some resistance, however, remains.
Illinois residents caught up in the criminal justice system collectively forked over an average of nearly $150 million a year in bail between 2016 and 2019. Those who couldn't pay up were put in jail.
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In general, Formula One teams are more financially stable than they were in the 1990s or 2000s, meaning that fewer teams need to hire pay drivers to pay the bills. [21] The Williams team was in chronic financial distress for much of the 2010s until the Williams family sold the team to a private equity investor.
Illinois' top court on Tuesday upheld a 2021 state law that eliminated cash bail and ordered that it take effect in September, clearing the way for the state to implement one of the most sweeping ...
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