A cancer patient lying in his own feces in the days leading up to his death. Another with ALS, slowly dying of starvation because no one has the time or inclination to feed him. Patients with dementia who are not fed, not changed, not supervised. An elderly person who died after suffering nearly two dozen falls.
These horrific acts of negligence are commonplace in prison health care units across Illinois, according to a devastating report released last month by a federal monitor.
