Unfit inmates costing local property taxpayers - mentally ill inmates - Pekin, IL - Pekin Daily Times

Unfit inmates costing local property taxpayers - Pekin, IL - Pekin Daily Times (read full article) In the past three years, the Tazewell County Illinois Sheriff’s Department has housed mentally ill inmates while waiting weeks or months for a bed to open up at a psychiatric facility where the inmates can get the proper care to address their illnesses and fitness for trial.