State Agency Held In Contempt Over Delays In Treating County Jail Inmates

A Sangamon County judge has found a state agency and its director in contempt of court over continuing delays in moving county jail inmates to suitable psychiatric facilities.
Judge Adam Giganti also assessed a fine of $100 per day against the Illinois Department of Human Services and Secretary Grace Hou. The judge found that the department and Hou did not have adequate excuses for the ongoing failure to find appropriate placements for inmates who were found mentally unfit to stand trial.
Those inmates must be moved within 20 days, but some Sangamon County Jail inmates have stayed in the jail for months. The Department said Governor JB Pritzker’s COVID restrictions, imposed in 2020, freed them of the obligation to obey that deadline, but the judge rejected that argument.

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