The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...

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 ...

Fifty percent of the health care provider’s jobs in Illinois are unfilled. Three Wexford doctors lack the proper credentials. Patients in need of dental fillings at one prison are on a 104-week ...

He says he's glad his case and others seem to be spurring change in the correctional health care system. "Every time I'd go to (the oncologist), I'd say, 'Doc, I need 48 months. . . . I gotta make ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to battle lawsuits over what some say is a failing health care system. The widely criticized private prison health care ...

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.

In 2018, IDOC awarded zero earned credits; three years later, over 2,000 people earned their way out of prison — a population reduction made possible in part because of changes in statute.

SPRINGFIELD — On a tour of the Pontiac Correctional Center shortly after he was hired to lead Illinois' prison system, John Baldwin met an inmate whose story convinced him that ...

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 ...