"While other research finds that pretrial detention may reduce pretrial crime and failures to appear in court in the short-term due to immediate incapacitation of the defendant, it also shows that pretrial detention has minimal effects on overall crime and negatively impacts a defendant’s ability to build an adequate defense or negotiate a settlement with prosecutors."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.