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(114,458 posts) Mon Mar 1, 2021, 04:15 PM Mar 2021

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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

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Hugin

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

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 04:20 PM

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blm

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2. It needed to be done.

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blm

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4. And a great Dem governor did it.

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Tue Mar 2, 2021, 03:13 PM

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blm

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3. Kick

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