CHICAGO (WLS) -- Every courthouse in the state of Illinois has operated without cash bail for almost two years.

Researchers at Loyola University's Criminal Justice and Criminology Department have found it to be a system that has run smoothly with no increases in crime.

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"People who have money, who may be dangerous, can't just buy their way out, and poor people who aren't dangerous don't languish in jail with the inability to be released," said Loyola University Loyola Center for Criminal Justice Co-Chair Professor David Olson.

Olson says the likelihood of someone committing a violent crime after being released before trial is very low. He says some prosecutors who were hesitant about a cashless bail system before it was enacted

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