Illinois DOC to Build $150 Million Inpatient Treatment Center
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is gearing up to build a $150 million mental health and medical correctional inpatient facility that will provide the most intensive level of care for offenders who struggle with mental illness and who require long-term skilled nursing care.
Slowly but surely, criminal justice science is undergoing a shift in modern America. While it’s long been acknowledged that reform is the optimal outcome of incarceration, this principle has yet to be uniformly recognized in the physical forms of adult detention facilities.