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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2026 · 50 MIN

Statewide: At a state prison, desperate men set themselves on fire

from Statewide · host Sean Crawford

The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.

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