Lawsuit: Vermin, mold and sewage overflow rampant at Crest Hill IDOC facility
Prisoners at an Illinois Department of Corrections intake facility are living among mice, rats, roaches and other insects, have seen feces in the kitchen and are forced to eat rotten food among other issues, according to a lawsuit filed this week by a detainee at the far southwest Crest Hill facility.
The NRC, a temporary “reception” center for prisoners before they are sent to other IDOC facilities, is “riddled with vermin and coated in hazardous mold,” according to the suit. Mills said the facility was originally opened to hold people for about a week before they’re transferred to a permanent IDOC facility but during the COVID-19 pandemic, they started spending up to more than a year there. Now, people spend between one and two months at the NRC on average, Mills said.
“When you begin to get that kind of consistency among people who can’t possibly have, you know, communicated with each other or otherwise coordinate their responses, then the veracity of those complaints, I think vastly increases in our minds,” Mills said.“Vermin are an everyday sight for prisoners,” the lawsuit says. “Mice run in and out of cells all night long. Cockroaches crawl up the walls, crawl into bedding, and bury themselves in commissary items.
“There have been instances in which plumbing backed up in the kitchen and showers. In these instances, human feces were seen floating on the kitchen floor and in the flooded communal showers,” the lawsuit says. Mills and Bradford said the complaints are not exclusive to that IDOC facility. Bradford said he hopes the lawsuit will push the facility and the department to address the complaints highlighted in the lawsuit and to create more humane conditions in all of its facilities.
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