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The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unwarranted search and seizure.

SPRINGFIELD — While Cortez Turner was in a hospital room being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg in 2016, police took his clothes. Now, the Illinois Supreme Court

CHICAGO (AP) — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children.

CHICAGO (AP) — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children. The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, including gang rape, forced oral sex, […]

The complaint, which details incidents from 1996 to 2017 at nine different centers, is seeking $2 million for each of its 95 plaintiffs.

“The State of Illinois has allowed a culture of abuse at Illinois Youth Centers to flourish unabated,” the 186-page complaint said.

In a newly filed, 185-page complaint, nearly 100 plaintiffs accuse the state of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Corrections and/or the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice of rampant sex abuse spanning several years.

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Secretary of State will not provide any facial recognition, search service or photographs from their database to any federal, state or local law enforcement

Rocky James, current Eldorado, Ill., mayor, formerly worked at Illinois Youth Center - Harrisburg

A complaint filed Monday in the Illinois Court of Claims details disturbing accounts from 95 men and women housed at youth centers as children.