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

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 ...

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 ...

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) — 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.

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois prison officials say as many as 30,000 newly freed inmates could gain health care coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act. Illinois parolees to benefit from Affordable ...

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.