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A newly-released report says psychiatric care in Illinois state prisons is “exceedingly poor and often...dangerous.” The expert report is a required part…
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A new law will allow people leaving Illinois prisons to get a copy of their birth certificate for free.The measure is meant to make it easier for former…
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The Illinois Senate passed legislation that would block a plan to privatize more than 120 nursing jobs in state prisons. Governor Bruce Rauner says his…
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More than 100 nurses at Illinois prisons have received layoff notices telling them their jobs are being privatized.The Associated Press obtained a letter…
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Partisan gridlock has caused Illinois to run without a full budget for more than a year-and-a-half. But there's one area Democrats and Republicans are…
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Any day now, Governor Bruce Rauner's criminal justice reform commission is expected to release its final set of recommendations.It's trying to figure out…
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The Illinois Department of Corrections says the state’s prison population dropped by 9 percent this past year.That’s a good start toward Governor Bruce…
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A new survey argues criminals should get rehabilitation rather than punishment; the recommendation comes straight from crime victims themselves.The study…
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Most of the Illinois Department of Corrections workers have completed mental-illness training as part of a settlement over how prisons treat inmates with…
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The Illinois Supreme Court is committing to a redesign of pretrial justice procedures, which is the system in place to deal with individuals from the time…