Illinois Practitioners on Pretrial Detention and its Uses
Pretrial
- Some Insights from Illinois Practitioner Interviews
- 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.
- Under the current cash bail system, most people - even people charged with serious crimes - do not await trial in jail.
- This tool presents data comparing existing Cook bond decisions with the new PFA detainable groups.
- Examining the number and percent of individuals receiving individual-recognizance bonds (I-Bonds), cash or deposit bonds (C/D-Bonds), and No Bail for offenses that will be detainable or non-detainable under the PFA.
- A detailed analyses of 1,836 new cases that went through bond court in Lake County, Illinois, from March 1 to December 31, 2021.
- This research brief examines trends in the number of individuals admitted to jail pretrial or formally supervised 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.