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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 05:15 PM

blm (111,065 posts)

JB Pritzker ends Illinois cash bail system that disproportionately hurt poor

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/us/illinois-cash-bail-pritzker.html

Illinois Becomes First State to Eliminate Cash Bail
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law that he said would end a system that disproportionately hurts the poor and favors wealthier defendants.

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JB Pritzker ends Illinois cash bail system that disproportionately hurt poor (Original post)	blm	Mar 2021	OP
Well, there's some encouraging news. n/t	Hugin	Mar 2021	#1
It needed to be done.	blm	Mar 2021	#2
And a great Dem governor did it.	blm	Mar 2021	#4
Kick	blm	Mar 2021	#3

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 05:20 PM

Hugin (31,218 posts)

1. Well, there's some encouraging news. n/t

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 06:16 PM

blm (111,065 posts)

2. It needed to be done.

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Tue Mar 2, 2021, 04:13 PM

blm (111,065 posts)

4. And a great Dem governor did it.

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 07:37 PM

blm (111,065 posts)

3. Kick

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