Illinois Department of Corrections
Recent News About Illinois Department of Corrections
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DeVore lawsuit: Pritzker, IL Dept of Corrections COVID vax or test mandate illegally tramples workers' rights
The lawsuit argues neither state law or any union-related negotiation or arbitration should allow Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections to ignore due process rights afforded to IDOC workers under the state's public health laws -
Judge says paroled IL sex offenders can press class action vs state over restricted access to their own kids
A federal judge has said three sex offenders can press a class action against the Illinois Department of Corrections, which claims the Department wrongly makes offenders get state permission before having contact with their own minor children. -
Judge orders IL to reform system supervising transgender prison inmates transitions
Transgender prison inmates in Illinois will be allowed to transition to their identifying gender and under supervision of trained medical and mental health professionals, a federal court has ruled. -
Hearings set next week in Alstory Simon’s $40 million wrongful incarceration suit
CHICAGO - A status hearing is set Oct. 2 in Alstory Simon's lawsuit against those he claims falsified evidence that implicated him and sent him to prison for a 1982 double murder. -
Court grants class status in case of Illinois inmates claiming substandard health care
A group of Illinois prison inmates will be allowed to move forward with their class action suit claiming health care provided to inmates in the Illinois Department of Corrections violates constitutional standards. -
Class action: IL supervised release policies unjustly effectively keep sex offenders in prison 'for life'
A lawsuit has been filed accusing the state of Illinois of violating the rights of convicted sex offenders by maintaining policies that do not allow a number of them to be released from prison after they have served their sentences, effectively leaving them informally sentenced to life in prison. -
Cook County Sheriff's Office accused of censoring prisoners' rights magazine at county jail
The publishers of a magazine which discusses the legal rights of prisoners have accused the Cook County Sheriff’s Office of unconstitutionally preventing inmates at the Cook County Jail from reading their publication. -
Employees working through lunch? Could cost employers in unforeseen ways, recent decision says
Employers need to become more conscious of whether their employees are working through break periods, as allowing them to do so could carry legal consequences, according to a labor law attorney, citing a recent decision by a federal judge to let stand a former IDOC employee's lawsuit asserting he racked up enough hours working through his lunch period to qualify for FMLA leave. -
Chicago, officers cited for false arrest, imprisonment
A Chicago man who alleges false arrest has sued the city and several police officers. -
Inmate files class action lawsuit accusing state agencies of failing to change parole review rules
A man 36 years into a 100-year-plus sentence for murder and armed robbery filed a class action lawsuit late last month against two state agencies he claims have ignored a 2010 state law requiring them to change the way the state evaluates inmate parole cases.
