Our system of justice — and indeed the rule of law — is suffering a stress test in our current political moment. Presidential confidante and the owner of the X social media platform Elon Musk recently ...

ALBANY — District attorneys across New York are urging state legislative leaders to support proposals from Gov. Kathy Hochul to amend rigid pretrial discovery rules in criminal justice statutes that ...

Cook County judges often grant prosecutors' requests to hold defendants in jail while awaiting trial, according to a new report from a court advocacy group, even when defendants are given a low ...

(Opinion) One of the most difficult situations I encounter in my role as a member of the clergy, is the panicked call from a friend or family member of a loved one suddenly caught up in the criminal ...

In her op-ed “The electronic monitoring system is broken” (Aug. 19), Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke essentially argues that charges alone should determine who is jailed pretrial, ignoring ...

The Leighton Criminal Court Building at 2600 S. California Credit: Eric Allix Rogers/Flickr via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA) took full effect in September 2023. The landmark ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This week, President Donald Trump took aim at Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, which ended cash bail in the state in 2023. Trump pledged to repeal the Act ...