Column: What’s in crime bill? No more cash bonds – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "It’s also important to remember that when a case is over, no matter its outcome, 10 percent of any bond returned to a defendant is kept by the county to fund the criminal-justice system. That’s why ending cash bond has been described by some as a backdoor method of defunding the criminal-justice system."

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