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| Mental health upgrades at state prisons could take 5 years |
| By pantagraph.com- Edith Brady-Lunny |
| Published: 02/09/2015 |
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PEORIA — A major overhaul of mental health care in Illinois' prisons could take five years to fully implement, according to a proposed agreement filed in a federal lawsuit on the issue of how mentally ill inmates are treated behind bars. A proposed settlement of a 2007 federal lawsuit, recently filed in U.S. District Court in Peoria, lays out a plan for opening four residential treatment units, drastically increasing staff to care for mentally ill prisoners and reopening the former Joliet youth home as a mental health campus. The improvements that could slowly increase the amount of time seriously mentally ill inmates spend out of their segregation cells, and provide hospital care currently unavailable will be phased in over five years, said the plan. Read More. |
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