Illinois comes up short in another area: Prison health care – Crain’s

The Illinois Department of Corrections now faces several class action lawsuits and multiple individual cases brought by inmates and former prisoners alleging that inadequate medical care, including delayed treatments, has led to poor and sometimes fatal outcomes. A recent review by a court-appointed expert of 33 death records from 2016 and 2017 found more than half—58 percent—were preventable or possibly preventable.