This criminal justice package that I signed today helps make Illinoisans safer. We're advance our values in the law, because of the passion and push of the @IllinoisLBC, activists, and residents intent on leaving a better Illinois for all our children. 
It achieves three priorities that @LtGovStratton and I outlined:
1⃣ Transform the pretrial detention system, which hurts low-income people while the wealthy walk free
2⃣ Divert low-level drug crimes into substance treatment programs
3⃣ Reduce excessive stays in prison
1⃣ Transform the pretrial detention system, which hurts low-income people while the wealthy walk free
2⃣ Divert low-level drug crimes into substance treatment programs
3⃣ Reduce excessive stays in prison
Already my administration has expunged 500K low level cannabis arrest records, pardoned 20K+, awarded tens of millions of dollars to lift up communities harmed by the war on drugs, and brought our state’s prison population down by about 25% since the beginning of the pandemic.
While there is more work to do, justice is being advanced once again today, and we are bringing about a more perfect union and the more of the blessings of liberty for all.
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