Article Summary A legislative panel formally objected to emergency rules that allow the Illinois Department of Corrections to withhold mail from incarcerated people. Under the policy, a scanned, digital copy would be provided to people housed in Illinois prisons. The emergency rules are in place on a temporary basis, but the Department of Corrections got bipartisan pushback at a hearing Tuesday. A legislative oversight panel formally objected Tuesday to a new administrative rule that temporarily allows the Illinois Department of Corrections to withhold mail from incarcerated people and instead deliver electronically scanned copies of correspondence they receive from the outside. Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide.