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Article IV - Police And Correctional Activities

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(745 ILCS 10/Art. IV heading)

(745 ILCS 10/4-101) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-101) Sec. 4-101. As used in this Article, "prisoner" means a person held in custody. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-102) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-102) Sec. 4-102. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise provide police protection service or, if police protection service is provided, for failure to provide adequate police protection or service, failure to prevent the commission of crimes, failure to detect or solve crimes, and failure to identify or apprehend criminals. This immunity is not waived by a contract for private security service, but cannot be transferred to any non-public entity or employee. (Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-103) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-103) Sec. 4-103. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to provide a jail, detention or correctional facility, or if such facility is provided, for failure to provide sufficient equipment, personnel, supervision or facilities therein. Nothing in this Section requires the periodic inspection of prisoners. (Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-104) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-104) Sec. 4-104. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for interfering with the right of a prisoner to obtain a judicial determination or review of the legality of his confinement, but a public employee and the local public entity where the employee is acting within the scope of his employment is liable for injury proximately caused by his intentional and unjustifiable interference with such right. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-105) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-105) Sec. 4-105. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury proximately caused by the failure of the employee to furnish or obtain medical care for a prisoner in his custody; but this Section shall not apply where the employee, acting within the scope of his employment, knows from his observation of conditions that the prisoner is in need of immediate medical care and, through willful and wanton conduct, fails to take reasonable action to summon medical care. Nothing in this Section requires the periodic inspection of prisoners. (Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-106) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-106) Sec. 4-106. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for: (a) Any injury resulting from determining to parole or release a prisoner, to revoke his or her parole or release, or the terms and conditions of his or her parole or release. (b) Any injury inflicted by an escaped or escaping prisoner. (Source: P.A. 98-558, eff. 1-1-14.)

(745 ILCS 10/4-107) (from Ch. 85, par. 4-107) Sec. 4-107. Neither a local public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the failure to make an arrest or by releasing a person in custody. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)

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Article IV - Police And Correctional Activities