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Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility, or just “Rushville,” is one of two civil commitment facilities in the state of Illinois. As of May 2022, Rushville detains 520 people, over 8% of the U.S.'s civilly committed population. Many people are sent to civil commitment after they have already served their criminal sentence in a prison.
Aug 19, 2020 · He is speaking over the phone from the Treatment and Detention Facility in Rushville — a rural area in western Illinois — where he is one of roughly 560 men (or, at least, people who the state ...
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Mar 11, 2020 · The state expects to move more such offenders from prisons to the facility in the coming years, so planning is underway to expand it. The Capital Development Board has released $30,659,600 to build two new wings at Rushville. Each wing will house around 98 residents, bringing the facility’s capacity to 825.
- Two Critiques of “Civil Commitment”
- New Data: A Survey of Individuals Held in A “Civil Commitment” Facility
- Conclusions
Some advocates call civil commitment facilities “shadow prisons,”5 in part because of how little news coverage they receive and how murky their practices are. In Illinois, for example, the Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities are overseen by the John Howard Association, an independent prison watchdog organization. But Rushville Treatment and ...
A recent report from Illinois (which I co-authored) goes beyond the numbers and reports that for many, civil commitment seems like a life sentence. This 2022 report, based on a 2019 study of residents at Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility (one of Illinois’ two civil commitment facilities), exposed demographic disparities, discrimination and...
Civil commitment facilities are not only legally and ethically dubious, they also fail to deliver on the very objectives that justified their creation. Even still, the trend toward preventative and “therapeutic” forms of detention that are fueled by biased and error-filled algorithms and risk assessment tools is growing. As one reporter from Texas ...
Sep 10, 2020 · On July 6, 2020, the facility started to reopen, and therapy groups started again. Visits are still out of the question and no “free” calls are allowed for residents to check in with their loved ones. All in all, and with much surprise, as of July 24, 2020, out of nearly 600 residents and about 200 staff, no resident has contracted COVID-19.
Feb 7, 2013 · More patients headed to Rushville Treatment and Detention Center. Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:43:51 GMT — More jobs are on the way to West Central Illinois as the Department of Human Services Treatment and Detention Facility in Rushville will undergo a $13 million dollar expansion. The TDF is the only facility in the state that houses sexually ...
Key Findings and Recommendations Report. Starting in 2013, volunteers in the Black and Pink Chicago chapter built penpal relationships with people at the Rushville Treatment and Detention Facility and became alarmed by the stories we were hearing: people inside were telling us that residents were dying at abnormally high rates and being denied proper medical treatment.
