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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FILE - Security fences surround the Illinois Department of Corrections' Logan Correctional Center, Nov. 18, 2016, in Lincoln, Ill. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has retained 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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...