SPRINGFIELD (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - There will be no jailbreak on Jan. 1. and police can still arrest trespassers.
Those were a couple of the takeaways from a forum at the Springfield chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union hosted Wednesday evening to, as organizers put it, be “myth busters” about the Pretrial Fairness Act, which come New Year’s will end cash bail.
“What you heard (from cash bail proponents) is that in the dead of night, the Black Caucus came down from Chicago and passed this. That is not true. That is really not true, and we know that is not true,” said Springfield chapter president Ken Page.
“Do you know anybody who is currently incarcerated? Who has not gone to trial yet?” Teresa Haley, president of the NAACP in both Springfield and statewide, asked.
She answered her own question by saying some of her relatives fit that description and have lost everything in life.
“They’ve lost their family, they’ve lost their jobs, they’ve lost their dignity, because they have been behind bars for so long (and cannot pay their way out),” Haley added. “They deserve to live.”
Springfield area Republicans, led by State Sen. Steve McClure (R-Springfield) and Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, have their say about the new law next Wednesday.
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