The jail population is down in Cook County, Illinois, and pretrial detention hearings are getting longer throughout the state after a law eliminating cash bail took effect.
Suspected murderer free pending trial In an early test of the controversial Illinois law known as the SAFE-T Act, a Troy man accused of murdering his girlfriend will remain out of jail until his trial. T.
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One month after the SAFE T Act took effect, more accused criminals are going free in Illinois. But in a strange twist, the new law may ultimately end up having the opposite effect.