Jail

Tracking the Illinois Jail Population after the PFA implementation.

We compared jail booking and average daily jail population data for the periods immediately before and after the effective date of the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act, and found that both bookings and average populations had declined beyond what would have been expected due to normal seasonal fluctuations.

A data tool that tracks the daily Cook County Jail and Community Corrections population.

Illinois Practitioners on Pretrial Detention and its Uses