Just so it is clear for everyone, time in pretrial detention is generally counted as part of your prison sentence when calculating your release date. In Illino

Just so it is clear for everyone, time in pretrial detention is generally counted as part of your prison sentence when calculating your release date. In Illinois, for instance, until cash bail was removed, a bulk of all prison sentences were actually served in county jails awaiting trial and sentencing. This is a problem since jails generally cannot, by law, offer rehabilitative services since they are dealing with unconvicted persons. And then when convicts get to prison they have too little time left to start any rehabilitation programs before release. Now that most suspects are not held prior to trial in Illinois, the bulk of any sentence will actually be served in the much better conditions and options of prisons.