“We’ve made a lot of progress in terms of criminal justice reform,” Preckwinkle said. “When I came into office, there were 11,000 people in the jail, including people who were detained because they could not pay even modest cash bonds for nonviolent offenses — drug offenses, shoplifting, not paying your child support, traffic offenses. The jail population is now, even in this moment of crisis, down to about 6,000.”
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