Illinois prisons were ordered to improve health care for inmates. They've spent seven years failing.

Johnnie Flournoy is going blind. It all started with him “seeing smoke.” Flournoy, 74, is incarcerated at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, a medium security prison almost five hours south of Chicago. He’s been in Illinois prisons since the early 1990s. His vision started to deteriorate early in ...