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| Inmates seek 3rd party to enforce mental health mandate |
| By pantagraph.com- Edith Brady-Lunny |
| Published: 04/07/2015 |
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PEORIA — Lawyers for thousands of mentally ill state prisoners are asking that a third party be named to enforce court-ordered improvements to mental health care. A motion filed in a 2007 federal lawsuit claims the Illinois Department of Corrections has failed to follow through with a massive overhaul of mental health care as described in court orders issued by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mihm in May 2013 and September 2014. Harold Hirschman, one of the lawyers for mentally ill state inmates, requests Mihm name a person who would have the authority to hire the staff and open the facilities needed to provide care to an estimated 11,000 mentally ill prisoners. Read More. |
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