Monday will be a big day at places like the Cook County Jail and others across the state, as inmates will be able to petition the court to review their case as this ruling takes effect.
In a 5-2 ruling in July, the state's highest court overturned a ruling by a Kankakee County judge that the law ending cash bail was unconstitutional.
"The money bond system wrongly tied access to financial resources to pretrial freedom. The result has been countless individuals – mostly from Black and Brown communities – spending days, weeks, months, years in jail just for being poor," said Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Opponents of the law have said judges need more discretion than currently allowed to decide whether a defendant should remain in jail.
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