Spending a day in courtroom is often the final place anybody desires to be — particularly on the weekend.
However for individuals who need to see justice meted out equitably and effectively, courtroom B within the Winnebago County Justice Heart is strictly the place they select to be.
Since early January, defendants have been making their first courtroom look earlier than a decide and “courtroom watchers” on Saturdays.
The courtroom watching program, an initiative of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, was created in anticipation of the Jan. 1 implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act, a state regulation that does away with observe of money bail and curtails pretrial incarceration.
