AP Examples of the shrinking services cited by the lawyers include an end to mental health groups and unstructured out-of-cell time at Pontiac.
Isolated in solitary confinement as the pandemic swept through Illinois prisons, inmates diagnosed with mental illness are beyond the breaking point, setting fire to their cells and harming themselves after more than a year without adequate mental health care.
Lawyers for about 12,000 mentally ill inmates have asked a federal judge to order the Illinois Department of Corrections to end the facilitywide lockdowns put in place in March 2020 after COVID-19 spread across the globe. Penal institutions have been hit especially hard by the virus, with jails and prisons seeing high rates of infection among staff and detainees.
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Brandt Seeks 2nd Pause In Worker s Finger Scan Privacy Suit
Law360 (February 10, 2021, 6:26 PM EST) Construction equipment manufacturer Brandt Industries asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to again press pause on a former employee s biometric privacy suit until the state s appellate courts resolve some long outstanding questions that could significantly impact his claims.
Brandt Industries USA Ltd. told U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm that although he s already paused former employee Joseph Sherman s biometric privacy lawsuit once, he should stay the case again as questions surrounding the applicability of the state s workers compensation exclusivity provision and the proper statute of limitations continue to make their way through the Illinois appellate and supreme courts.
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