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| Prison mental health treatment getting makeover |
| By herald-review.com- Edith Brady-Lunny |
| Published: 12/19/2016 |
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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 measures demanded immediate action. The prisoner told Baldwin during the October 2015 prison walk-through that he had 22 years left to serve in administrative segregation. "When I asked him why he was there he said, 'I don't know,'" said Baldwin in a Pantagraph interview last week that also included IDOC chief of psychiatry, Dr. Michael Dempsey, and Dr. Melvin Hinton, chief of the agency's Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Read More. |
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