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A federal judge has ruled the Illinois prison system is still providing inadequate mental healthcare to inmates and that the treatment qualifies as cruel…
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A mother is suing Illinois and Sangamon County officials for failing to prevent her daughter's suicide.Tiffany Rusher had serious mental health problems.…
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The Illinois Department of Corrections on Wednesday announced most of its workers have completed mental-illness training. It's part of the settlement in a…
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A federal judge has approved the settlement in a lawsuit over the treatment of Illinois’ mentally ill prisoners.Without admitting wrongdoing, Department…
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Last December, the state of Illinois tentatively agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over the treatment of prisoners with mental illness. But changes…
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Illinois taxpayers pay a private company more than a hundred million dollars a year to give health care to prison inmates.Yet no one in Illinois knows how…