Advocates Release Report On Bail System Overhaul

Advocates Release Report On Bail System Overhaul

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Five months after Cook County overhauled it’s bail system, advocate court watchers say some judges aren’t following an order that instructed them to only give bail in amounts peopel could afford. Those advocates did say, however, that cash bail is now far less common and the jail population has dropped.