SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A court-appointed expert would guide the overhaul of health care for Illinois prison inmates in a proposed federal consent decree filed Thursday. Lawyers for ...

Updated 6:30 p.m. The Illinois Department of Corrections has agreed to a plan that would allow a federal judge to oversee health care in the state’s prisons.

Illinois is failing to provide adequate health care for prisoners The state committed itself to change by entering into a consent decree in the Lippert vs. Jeffreys class action lawsuit on prison ...

Photos of mental health care treatment areas and crisis cells in Illinois prisons. The photos were included in a 2020 federal court filing in Davis v. Jefferys, a lawsuit over prison isolation.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections is again under fire for failing to provide adequate health care for the roughly 29,000 prisoners in its system, with a scathing federal monitor’s report ...

Thousands of non-U.S. citizens living in Illinois will no longer receive state-funded health care benefits as Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration looks for ways to cut the costs of two programs ...

NEW LAWS TO WATCH FOR IN 2020: It’s a new year, which brings a host of new laws in Illinois.The General Assembly and Gov. J.B. Pritzker put into law numerous health care measures, from mandating ...

New Year' Eve doesn't just bring fireworks, parties and resolutions -- it also brings hundreds of new Illinois laws for 2025, with at least 293 new laws set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

Lawyers for approximately 40,000 state prison inmates announced that the Illinois Department of Corrections’ agreement would settle an eight-year-old federal lawsuit alleging that prison health ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it’s used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against… ...