Most Inmates With Mental Illness Still Wait For Decent Care

The Joliet Treatment Center, southwest of Chicago, is one of three facilities now providing mental health care to some of Illinois

Nearly three years after the state of Illinois agreed in a court settlement to revamp mental health care in prisons and provide better treatment, a judge says the care remains “grossly insufficient.”

(Image credit: Christine Herman/Illinois Public Media)

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