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Abstract: 

Rasho v. Walker, 2018 WL 2392847 (C.D. Illinois 2018), has been in the federal court system at least since November 2007 when Ashoor Rasho filed a pro se complaint claiming that the Illinois DOC violated his Eighth Amendment rights by not providing him with constitutionally sufficient mental health care. Michael Randle, an Ohio native and a wonderful, compassionate correctional professional, discussed an independent, outside evaluation of the IDOC’s mental health delivery system with the author and asked me to assemble a team and do that. A report was submitted in May, 2011. About 11 years later, Judge Michael M. Mihm, his considerable patience and forbearance sapped, entered a preliminary injunction following an evidentiary hearing. His order finds that defendants were not complying with an earlier consent decree in the areas of staffing, treatment plans, evaluations, medications, segregation and crisis treatment, and transitions. The system in place within the IDOC to treat the mentally ill was found to be in a state of emergency.

Keywords: Rasho v. Walker

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