Illinois becomes first state to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release

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Description: (12 Sep 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago – 5 September 2023 1. Various of exterior of Cook County Criminal Court Administration building. HEADLINE: Illinois becomes first state to end money bond 2. Various of exterior of Cook County Criminal Court ANNOTATION: Beginning Sept. 18, Illinois eliminates cash bail as a pretrial release condition. Under previous law, defendants typically had to pay 10% of their bond. 3. CU of Lavette Mayes in her kitchen ANNOTATION: Critics say cash bail policies are especially unfair to Black people and other people of color. ANNOTATION: A 2022 federal report on cash bail systems found courts tend to impose higher pretrial detention penalties on Black and Latino people. 4. Medium of Lavette Mayes cooking with her daughter ANNOTATION: Lavette Mayes, a mother of two, couldn't afford a $25,000 bond payment after being arrested due to an altercation with a family member. 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lavette Mayes, Illinois Resident: “That was an enormous amount of money. My family, I knew, couldn't afford to pay.” 6. CU of Lavette Mayes cooking 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lavette Mayes, Illinois Resident: “I think I just went numb. I was in shock knowing that I will have to spend this amount of time in jail, you know, simply because I couldn't pay the bond.” ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 8. CU of Lavette Mayes washing her hands ANNOTATION: Being detained pretrial can often have immediate and long-lasting consequences, especially for mothers supporting children. 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lavette Mayes, Illinois Resident: “I lost my business while I was incarcerated and I lost my house while I was incarcerated.” ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 10. Wide of Lavette Mayes cooking with her daughter 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lavette Mayes, Illinois Resident: “To lose everything and almost losing custody of my kids. It was really devastating for me and knowing that going through pretrial, how hard it hurts, not because of your charges, but simply because you can't pay a cash bond.” ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 12. Medium of Lavette Mayes’s daughter 13. Wide of Lavette Mayes and her daughter at table ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago – 11 August 2023 14. CU of coffee brewing 15. Medium of Nikuya Brooks in her kitchen ANNOTATION: Nikuya Brooks, who is also a mother, spent about a year in jail after being unable to come up with $15,000 cash to be released before her trial. 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikuya Brooks, Chicago Resident: “You're already being punished because you're being detained. It's the proper term they use. But you're also being punished twice because you're poor.” ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 17. Medium of Nikuya Brooks in her kitchen ANNOTATION: Studies by advocacy groups have shown that being detained pretrial can have a negative impact on the outcome of a person’s case. 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikuya Brooks, Chicago Resident: “You look guilty because you're in jail. So I felt stigmatized by that. Every time I would have to go before the judge wearing his uniform, my hands shackled at my waist, and I'm wearing leg irons and chains, and I'm walking before the judge like that. So nothing that I say is pertinent to him because I'm just some criminal.” 19. CU of Nikuya Brooks ANNOTATION: While in pretrial detention, Nikuya took a plea deal, and now struggles to find work due to the drug possession plea. 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikuya Brooks, Chicago Resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 21. Various of Nikuya Brooks’s hands holding her phone ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago – 5 September 2023 STORYLINE: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4ad67625c7db45359592e7973f9fb2fb