Illinois Practitioners on Pretrial Detention and its Uses

A Little Bit of Time in Jail

Professors Don Stemen and David Olson of Loyola University Chicago CCJ examine whether crime has increased in places that have implemented bail reforms since 2017.

Is Bail Reform Causing an Increase in Crime?

Some Insights from Illinois Practitioner Interviews

Why Hold On to Cash Bail?

Examines plea negotiations in Milwaukee and St. Louis County.

Exploring Plea Negotiation Processes and Outcomes in Milwaukee and St. Louis County

Most people pass through jails, being held for relatively short periods before bonding out—and that includes people charged with the kinds of serious offenses that are designated “detainable” under the PFA.

Cash Bail Detains People Charged with Serious Offenses—But for How Long?

This tool presents data comparing existing Cook bond decisions with the new PFA detainable groups.

How Bond Decisions Will Change in Cook County Under the PFA

Report examines in detail the outcome of firearm possession arrests in terms of conviction, sentencing, and post-sentencing patterns of arrest or “recidivism.”

Sentences Imposed on Those Convicted of Felony Illegal Possession of a Firearm in Illinois

This research brief examines trends in the number of individuals admitted to jail pretrial or formally supervised under pretrial supervision in the community. 

Individuals Held in Pretrial Detention and Under Pretrial Supervision in the Community

This report by researchers at the Center for Criminal Justice Research, Policy, and Practice at Loyola University Chicago analyzes the impact of bond reform in Cook County on felony bond court decisions, pretrial release, and crime.

Dollars and Sense In Cook County

Examines the prevalence and factors that influence probation revocation in Cook County, Illinois.

Reducing Revocations Challenge: The Cook County (Chicago) Adult Probation Department and Loyola University Chicago Action Research Team Final Report

Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Criminal Justice Research, Policy and Practice has collaborated with ICJIA to support the development of these CJCCs in a number of jurisdictions in Illinois and use a data-guided and structured planning process to identify, analyze, solve, and manage justice system issues

Publications

A Little Bit of Time in Jail

Is Bail Reform Causing an Increase in Crime?

Why Hold On to Cash Bail?

Exploring Plea Negotiation Processes and Outcomes in Milwaukee and St. Louis County

Cash Bail Detains People Charged with Serious Offenses—But for How Long?