Illinois' prison system has a new proposal to help improve conditions for mentally ill inmates.
The Corrections Department wants to create four treatment units, more than a thousand available beds and add 350 clinical staff. The plan includes renovating facilities at the Dixon, Pontiac and Logan correctional centers.
The department would also reopen a former Joliet youth home as a mental health campus. The filing comes after a hearing where inmates' lawyers ask for accounts of progress in improving mental health treatment.