There Is a Public Defense Crisis in Illinois, The FAIR Act Can End It - Coalition to End Money Bond
Illinois’ chronic underfunding of public defense is a civil rights crisis. In jurisdictions across the state, public defenders are tasked with overwhelming caseloads and are often deprived of the resources required to provide quality defense. Funding disparities between the prosecutor’s and public defender’s budgets exist in every county. These dynamics disproportionately impact rural, Black, and […]| Coalition to End Money Bond
