The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...

Releasing the terminally ill and seriously disabled, under a 2022 law, would help ease the burden on the state’s disastrous prison health care system. The state needs to provide funding so ...

A mental health crisis cell at Lawrence Correctional Center in Illinois. Lawmakers heard testimony Monday asking them to find a new health care provider for people locked up in state prisons.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the ...

The infirmary where the dying receive hospice care is in the prison’s health care unit. The walls are cream-colored cinder block; the rooms have large windows that look out onto the prison grounds.

Photos of mental health care treatment areas and crisis cells in Illinois prisons. The photos were included in a 2020 federal court filing in Davis v. Jefferys, a lawsuit over prison isolation.

CHICAGO (CBS) --An Illinois House committee has held a hearing aimed on a proposal to providing more oversight for the private company that maintains health care in the Illinois prison system ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will provide health care at two state prisons in a test that could expand statewide and which could provide answers for a ...

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.