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Over 200 Chicago-area alleged criminals with ankle monitors are AWOL: report

New York Post·Caitlin McCormack·6 months ago
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More than 200 defendants with ankle monitors in Chicago and the county in which it sits are in the wind, a newly elected judge revealed as he tries to fix the broken system.

Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach’s bombshell report revealed that an estimated 8% of defendants out on electronic monitoring are “actively being searched for right now,” WGN reported.

There are currently 3,048 defendants being electronically monitored while on pre-trial release, so roughly 244 of them in Illinois’ most populous county, and the second-most in the US, are untraceable.

Roughly 244 ankle-monitored defendants in Cook County, Illinois are AWOL, according to Chief Judge Charles Beach.…

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