A federal monitor’s report this week cited shortcomings in the health care provided state prisoners in Illinois that ranged from the mistreatment of elderly inmates to a severe shortage of doctors and nurses.
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Corrections is again under fire for failing to provide adequate health care for the roughly 29,000 prisoners in its system, with a scathing federal monitor’s report this week citing shortcomings that ranged from the mistreatment of elderly inmates to a severe shortage of doctors and nurses and poor record keeping.
The problems at IDOC are the latest to confront Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker over his administration’s management of state agencies, which has been a major avenue of criticism from Republicans as he seeks reelection.
It also noted a shortage of doctors and nurses throughout the IDOC system, reporting that in one instance there was one doctor assigned as the medical director for four facilities housing 4,711 prisoners. “The plan is one that gets negotiated and the opposition anyway, on the other side of the case, disagrees with the plan that was put forward,” Pritzker said.
Since February, there have been no “patient-inmate” hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the report stated, noting that IDOC “wisely” partnered with the Illinois Department of Public Health to implement policies for the virus.
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