McLean County circuit court and all the other courts in the state are scrambling to meet an end-of-year deadline to implement the controversial Safe-T Act criminal justice reform bill. The end of cash bail is one of the well-known provisions of the law, but there are a lot more pieces of it that will have big effects.
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part WGLT series this week about court fines and fees in Illinois.Critics have said the legal system hurts…