The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding ...

After decades of protest from prisoner’s rights activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) ...

While there are signs that Medicaid reentry programs continue to enjoy support from both sides of the aisle, these programs (and their patients) will inevitably be impacted by proposed cuts and ...

The “big, beautiful bill” that passed Congress is a raw deal for working-class Americans. It should be called the ...

Pritzker also signed House Bill 3019, known as the Healthcare Protection Expansion Act. Among other things, it prohibits state-regulated health plans from requiring prior authorization for outpatient ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55.2 billion state budget for 2026 late Saturday, with new taxes on sports bets and nicotine, but no transit funding.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education investigate university-run prison health care systems in Texas, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

In my Missouri prison, we suffer from a lack of basic health care. I know of many people who were ill last fall. In some of the housing wings, coughing, diarrhea and vomiting occurred too often. At ...

Illinois has erased another $220 million in medical debt for thousands of residents as Gov. JB Pritzker continues to make progress on a medical debt relief program promising to cancel $1 billion ...

Illinois lawmakers and prison guards are ramping up efforts to ban physical mail into state prisons, blaming synthetic-drug-sprayed paper for a rise in overdoses behind bars.

Reese told the editorial board that legislators allotted only 20 minutes for an overview presentation and that he will discuss the prison system’s health care needs in budget presentations.