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

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 ...

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. (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.

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 ...

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.

The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to battle lawsuits over what some say is a failing health care system. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will provide health care at two state prisons in a test that could expand statewide and which could provide answers for a ...

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… ...

Illinois officials have awarded a prison medical care contract to the same company it's been using for years, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits and widespread accusations of substandard care.