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

Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.

Now is a good time to begin studying prison health care, Lorber said, because the state is already studying broader health care reform. In addition, the state is one year into a three-year contract ...

SPRINGFIELD — On a tour of the Pontiac Correctional Center shortly after he was hired to lead Illinois' prison system, John Baldwin met an inmate whose story convinced him that some reform ...

After years of poor care, preventable deaths, Illinois is changing its prison health care provider. The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, ...

Pension and health care reform on Pritzker's radar for third term. Illinois faced an "overwhelming" pension debt problem when Pritzker took office in 2019, he said Thursday before later signaling ...

These proposed cuts are not abstract numbers — they represent a direct threat to the 3.4 million Illinoisans who depend on Medicaid and to the hospitals that care for them every day.

This number is trending upward: between 1980 and 2022, the female prison population in the U.S. grew by more than 585 percent, more than twice the growth rate of the male prison population.