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

At about 7 p.m. at Columbia Correctional Institution on June 9, 2021, Paul Ammerman lost consciousness in his prison cell, ...

Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are questioning a California-based health system that recently bought eight Illinois hospitals, after cuts to services at several of those locations.

The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess the prison system’s troubled health care system, records show. The ...

Two top officials overseeing medical care at the Oregon Department of Corrections have been fired as the prison system’s health care standards come under scrutiny.

(The Center Square) – New laws go into effect in Illinois Jan. 1 that will put new restrictions on the state’s health insurance industry. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Healthcare Protection Act (HPA) ...

Many Spanish speakers inside my Illinois prison believe that their identities prevent them from receiving adequate medical care. Something must be done about this. As a bilingual, first-generation ...

Incarcerated people depend on prison bureaucracy to fulfill their basic health care needs. We are expected to advocate for our own health care. But, as with Víctor and his missed insulin dose, those ...

There will be plenty of changes in store for 2025 as hundreds of new laws take effect in Illinois, but among those New Years changes will be a number of health insurance shifts.

Nearly 300 new Illinois laws will go into effect on New Year’s Day, and dozens could have a direct impact on your health and wellness in 2025.

(The Center Square) – A new John Howard Association report is calling attention to an ongoing staffing crisis throughout the Illinois prison system that experts contend is now having an adverse effect ...

This year, Illinois again picked Wexford Health Services for prison health care despite longstanding claims of neglect. A judge has since extended court monitoring of prisons.