“We are not a mental health facility, we’re a detention facility,” Sangamon County, Sheriff Jack Campbell said. “And it was unfair to the inmate themselves, who the court has said they need help that the jail and the court cannot provide them and DHS had refused.” Campbell also sued to get a restraining order against the governor’s COVID-19 executive orders limiting transfers.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.