The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own troubling track record in other states.

Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.

After years of poor care, preventable deaths, Illinois is changing its prison health care provider. The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, ...

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 ...

Now is a good time to begin studying prison health care, Lorber said, because the state is already studying broader health care reform. In addition, the state is one year into a three-year contract ...

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 ...