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Illinois’ main prison for women has nearly 2,000 inmates. An outside monitor says that’s the result of poor planning when Illinois closed the prison at…
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The state agency that oversees prisons does not expect to make significant changes to its operations, following the escape of an inmate last week from a…
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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…
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Between 80 and a hundred people die behind bars in Illinois every year. The average age of the people who die is 54.The Department of Corrections says it…
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Between 80 and a hundred people die each year inside Illinois prisons.Chicago public station WBEZ has been seeking information about those deaths, but the…
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Illinois' prison systems have misplaced $200,000 of computer equipment. As Amanda Vinicky reports, the state's auditor general says that poses security…