CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois prisons must undergo wide reforms in the treatment of transgender inmates, including training for employees and avoiding cross-gender strip searches, under a court order ...

Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Ill. A federal judge has ordered the Illinois Department of Corrections to reform how it treats transgender inmates. Associated Press Share Illinois prisons ...

Dr Boyle and Dr Rasool are two of the 19 full and part-time GPs who work in prisons. They are supported by about 80 prison nurses and 50 medical orderlies.

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill – Members of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus led their fifth hearing on criminal justice reform Tuesday afternoon. Lawmakers and advocates highlighted issues people face ...

Illinois officials have awarded a prison medical care contract to the same company it's been using for years, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits and widespread accusations of substandard care ...

The dismal state of prison health care and outcomes for inmates is no different in Illinois, where the widely criticized private prison health care company Wexford has operated the state’s ...

Governor Pritzker, Illinois parole board face criticism over prisoner releases amid calls for reform. Convicted cop killer, Johnny Veal, was granted parole last year despite being sentenced to 100 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Republicans are speaking out after Gov. JB Pritzker signed changes to the state’s Prisoner Review Board. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 19, which includes ...

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 approximately ...

Eric Reinhart is a psychoanalytic clinician and political anthropologist of law, psychiatry, and public health. For a few months in the fall of 2021, reports of unchecked violence, abuse, and ...