Afternoon Briefing: Kane County sheriff blames bail reform for increase in jail population
At the Kane County Board Committee of the Whole meeting, Sheriff Ron Hain said the state’s new bail reform is to blame for ...
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Ill. Sheriff: Bail Reform to Blame for Spike in Jail Population, Arrest Warrants
"All it has done is put more people back in jail," Kane County's sheriff told county lawmakers about a law that eliminated cash bail in the state in 2023.
Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.
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Inmates with violent records from shuttered prison are being sent to medium-security sites
Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...
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Correction officer admitted to planting drugs on inmate – now he’s suing
A former Marcy Correctional Facility inmate is suing the prison, a correction officers and several others for planting drugs on him.The one officer named in this suit admitted to doing the crime and ...