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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law. | ||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | ||||||
| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Restrictive Housing Data Publication and Verification Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Data publication. | ||||||
| 7 | (a) Definition. In this Act: | ||||||
| 8 | "Restrictive housing" includes the confinement statutes | ||||||
| 9 | currently designated in Department of Corrections rules and | ||||||
| 10 | administrative directives as "Restrictive Housing, | ||||||
| 11 | Administrative Detention, Investigatory Status, Disciplinary | ||||||
| 12 | Segregation and Temporary Confinement", as well as any similar | ||||||
| 13 | designations used by the Department in the future. | ||||||
| 14 | (b) Quarterly reports. Beginning on July 1, 2025, the | ||||||
| 15 | Department of Corrections shall post quarterly reports on the | ||||||
| 16 | use of restrictive housing on the Department's official | ||||||
| 17 | website. Those reports shall include: | ||||||
| 18 | (1) data, both aggregated and disaggregated by | ||||||
| 19 | facility, regarding individuals placed in restrictive | ||||||
| 20 | housing during the prior quarter by age, sex, gender | ||||||
| 21 | identity, ethnicity, whether the individuals were | ||||||
| 22 | designated Serious Mental Illness (SMI) at the time of the | ||||||
| 23 | conduct that led to their placement in restrictive | ||||||
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| 1 | housing, the type of confinement status, and both the | ||||||
| 2 | total length and the length for the prior 12 months that | ||||||
| 3 | the person spent and was sentenced to restrictive housing. | ||||||
| 4 | Such data shall also include the charge or charges that | ||||||
| 5 | resulted in restrictive housing and a description of the | ||||||
| 6 | activity that formed the basis of the charge; | ||||||
| 7 | (2) the population of each restrictive housing unit on | ||||||
| 8 | the last day of each quarter and a non-duplicative | ||||||
| 9 | cumulative count of persons confined to restrictive | ||||||
| 10 | housing for the previous 12 months; | ||||||
| 11 | (3) the conduct that led to their placement in | ||||||
| 12 | restrictive housing and incidences of emergency | ||||||
| 13 | confinement, self-harm, suicide, and assault in any | ||||||
| 14 | restrictive housing unit; | ||||||
| 15 | (4) the number of facility wide lockdowns at each | ||||||
| 16 | facility for the prior quarter and an explanation of the | ||||||
| 17 | reason for each such lockdown; | ||||||
| 18 | (5) data on access to health care, including the | ||||||
| 19 | amount of time it takes for a person in restrictive | ||||||
| 20 | housing to see a physician after requesting to see a | ||||||
| 21 | physician, how many times a person sees a nurse or other | ||||||
| 22 | medical staff before seeing the physician, whether it is a | ||||||
| 23 | medical emergency, and the time between routine medical | ||||||
| 24 | and physical checkups; | ||||||
| 25 | (6) the number of grievances filed appealing placement | ||||||
| 26 | in restrictive housing, disaggregated by race, gender, | ||||||
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| 1 | age, and reason for placement; and | ||||||
| 2 | (7) the number of alternative programs to restrictive | ||||||
| 3 | housing available by facility, the frequency of their use, | ||||||
| 4 | and their attendance by committed persons, disaggregated | ||||||
| 5 | by race, gender, age, and reason for placement, utilized | ||||||
| 6 | in response, or as an alternative to, restrictive housing. | ||||||
| 7 | These reports shall not include personally identifiable | ||||||
| 8 | information regarding any committed person. | ||||||
| 9 | (c) Annual reports. Beginning on July 1, 2025, the | ||||||
| 10 | Department of Corrections shall compile an annual report | ||||||
| 11 | summarizing the data collected under this Section and shall | ||||||
| 12 | submit the annual report to the Governor and the General | ||||||
| 13 | Assembly, and shall make the annual report available to the | ||||||
| 14 | public. This report shall be made available on the Department | ||||||
| 15 | of Corrections website, beginning July 1, 2025. | ||||||
| 16 | Section 10. Verification of data accuracy. | ||||||
| 17 | (a) The Department of Corrections shall implement | ||||||
| 18 | procedures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data | ||||||
| 19 | collected under this Act. The Department of Corrections shall | ||||||
| 20 | conduct regular audits of its data collection processes and | ||||||
| 21 | shall take corrective action as necessary to address any | ||||||
| 22 | inaccuracies or deficiencies identified during these audits. | ||||||
| 23 | (b) The Department of Corrections shall collaborate with a | ||||||
| 24 | third party research university to report the data under this | ||||||
| 25 | Act and to solicit feedback on ways to improve data collection | ||||||
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| 1 | and reporting. | ||||||
| 2 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 3 | becoming law. | ||||||