TAMMS, Ill. (CBS)-- Eight of the state's more volatile criminals were moved Thursday from the Tamms Superman prison downstate. As WBBM Newsradio's Bob Conway reports, the Associated Press says the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A coalition of prison watchdogs, former inmates and inmates' families Wednesday called on Gov. Pat Quinn to stand by his decision to close the state's Tamms supermax prison -- and on ...

TAMMS (AP) -- For almost 12 years, Illinois taxpayers have paid one of the highest per-inmate costs in the country to house what the Department of Corrections says are the 250 worst inmates in the ...

At Tamms Correctional Center in the far southern tip of Illinois, the state houses its most dangerous prisoners in uncomfortable conditions of monotony and isolation. Our state’s only “super-max” ...

This is a good week in Illinois. Opened in 1995, the correctional facility at Tamms has been enormously expensive to Illinois taxpayers. The best estimate is that it costs three times more to house a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. That’s why Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn made big news last Wednesday when he proposed ...

The super-maximum security prison in Tamms may stay open under one of the budget plans proposed by the Illinois House on Wednesday. Gov. Pat Quinn proposed to cut Tamms and several other prisons and ...

TAMMS — What little hope remained of reopening or repurposing the shuttered Tamms Correctional Center continues to grow dimmer. The prison and its adjacent work camp are “rampant” with mold, Lindsey ...

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We write in support of your proposal to close the Tamms Correctional Center. Supermaximum security confinement such as provided at Tamms is not only expensive, it is unnecessary and inhumane. States ...

TAMMS — What little hope remained of reopening or repurposing the shuttered Tamms Correctional Center continues to grow dimmer. The prison and its adjacent work camp are "rampant" with mold, Lindsey ...