03/11/2025

Public Defense

Maine judge demands action amid defense attorney shortage crisis

News Center Maine

03/11/2025

Chicago Police

After forcing out COPA chief, oversight boss vows to confront ‘dirty city’ impeding police reform

Chicago Sun-Times

03/11/2025

Public Defense

Pressure mounts for Oregon to course-correct on plans to reform public defense system

KGW8

03/11/2025

Chicago Police

Police Oversight Board Planned No Confidence Vote Before Chicago Police Misconduct Agency Chief Resigned

WTTW

03/11/2025

Chicago Police

Documents show crisis of confidence that led to COPA chief’s exit

Chicago Tribune

03/11/2025

Pretrial Fairness and Safe-T Act

WATCH: No cash bail cases challenged in two Illinois Supreme Court hearings

The Center Square

03/10/2025

Chicago Police

Chicago’s ex-police oversight chief slams push to fire her as ‘inherently unfair’

Chicago Sun-Times

03/10/2025

Reentry

Rising rents aren’t just a problem for those living in poverty

Chicago Sun-Times

03/10/2025

Chicago Police

Federal jury awards $120 million to 2 men falsely convicted in 2003 murder

Chicago Sun-Times

03/10/2025

Incarceration

New York fires 2,000 prison guards who refuse to return to work after wildcat strike

Central Illinois Proud

03/10/2025

Chicago Police

Jury Awards $120M to 2 Men Wrongfully Convicted of 2003 Murder, Setting New Chicago Record

WTTW

03/10/2025

Incarceration

Gov. JB Pritzker’s $300M proposal seeks to attract developers to abandoned sites that now draw only vandals

Chicago Tribune

03/10/2025

State and National Policing

DuPage County, sheriff agree to $11 million payout for jail death

Chicago Tribune

03/10/2025

Incarceration

Illinois Pitches Two New Prisons as a Way to Modernize and Address Aging Facilities. Some Advocates Aren’t Sold

WTTW

03/09/2025

State and National Policing

Protesters demand transparency after police kill teen

The Pantagraph