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Department of Corrections

  • Belt law will require Medicaid screening for inmates upon being released

  • Correctional officers, deputies get a victory under new law

  • Guzmán initiative to create transparency on how contraband enters prisons

  • Guzmán measure increasing transparency on how contraband enters prisons passes Senate

  • Pacione-Zayas measure promoting transparency at Department of Corrections advances

  • Pay-to-stay ban, other Peters laws take effect

  • Peters champions change to earned sentence credit methods

  • Peters ends “pay to stay” with new law

  • Peters to expand on the No Representation Without Population Act

  • Peters’ recidivism reduction measure clears Senate

  • Preston bill to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with a pathway to society

  • Preston’s new law creates more successful reentry pathways for returning residents

  • Prisons will offer civics education under new Peters law

  • Rehabilitation classes may reduce required prison time under Lightford plan

  • Senate approves Fine’s plan to protect the rights of families visiting jailed loved ones

  • Transparency on how contraband enters prisons to increase thanks to Guzmán

  • Villanueva advances measure to provide free menstrual products in IDOC facilities

  • Villanueva: Our criminal justice system does not exist to serve ICE

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