Illinois prisons were ordered to improve health care for inmates. They've spent seven years failing.

Even though the Illinois Department of Corrections has been under a consent decree since 2019, the state continues to fail to ...
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Monitor: IDOC fails to address requirements of mental health lawsuit

SPRINGFIELD — A year after a settlement agreement was reached in a landmark federal lawsuit to improve mental heath care at Illinois prisons, a court monitor reported a backlog of more than 3,600 ...