Iowa State Department of Corrections Archives

Illinois Prison System to Improve Mental-Health Conditions

November 12, 2014 2795 Views Department of Human Rights’ Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, Dr. Raman Singh, Eastern U.S., felony reclassification, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Iowa State Department of Corrections, Shelley Zimmerman

PEORIA, Ill. — The Illinois prison system will add four mental-health treatment units and 350 clinical-staff employees as part of its plan to improve conditions for mentally ill inmates in response to inmate complaints in a federal lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court in Peoria.