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| Report: Mental health care at IYC-Kewanee lacking |
| By .starcourier.com |
| Published: 12/14/2012 |
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The Illinois Youth Center-Kewanee on Kentville Road is the subject of a scathing report by a corrections watchdog organization that inspected the prison in September. Medical care for severe mental illness at a Kewanee juvenile detention center is so inadequate, the state should find another place for residents needing care “to prevent the violation of their constitutional right to treatment,” a report released Thursday says. Only eight of 17 mental health positions were filled at the Illinois Youth Center-Kewanee, the state’s designated facility for delinquent young people with the worst mental disturbances, when the John Howard Association visited in September. As a result, Kewanee residents get only half as much treatment as all detainees at another, general-population facility. Read More. |
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