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Cashless bail and electronic monitoring are again hot button issues in Cook County and Illinois after a number of high profile cases involving the practices. Among those cases is that of Aphonso ...

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Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell Jr. and a coalition of legal groups and social service organizations are petitioning Chief Judge Timothy Evans to enter a general order prohibiting ...

Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell told Say More that his office has stepped up to defend immigrants in the face of President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign. But he said they ...

Sharone R. Mitchell Jr., Cook County Public Defender, joins Lisa to discuss President Trump’s executive order ending cashless bail. Mitchell shares the details about the cashless bail system, ...

Former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx pushed for bail reform and the SAFE-T Act. It took effect in September 2023, the year before she left office. The goal of the new law: to take money out of ...