House Bill 3665, referred to as
The Joe Coleman Medical Release Act, would amend the Unified Code of Corrections with a provision that an incarcerated person can be qualified as medically incapacitated if there is a medical condition preventing the inmate from completing more than one activity of daily living.
“While I appreciate the activities of daily living is a better standard than just one, activities for daily living still include things like that under the medical criteria . dental hygiene, hair, and nail care, the ability to walk independently.” Mazzochi contested. “So there certainly are areas that may not necessarily qualify as true compassionate release and I would prefer that you were actually using the standards that either the Social Security Administration uses… then we could be supportive but I can t be supportive as it s currently drafted.”
Advocates are celebrating a new law that will end wealth-based pretrial detention in Illinois. With Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signature yesterday, the state becomes the first in the country to eliminate cash bail.