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Durbin tours Ill.'s lone supermax prison, gives mental-heath services thumbs up

The state's only supermax prison has been called into question in recent months over inmate-isolation practices that human-rights advocates consider inhumane.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Beacon News

Illinois' death row prisons

The facility sits on a 37-acre site, with 32 acres being enclosed by fencing. Pontiac Correctional Center houses the following offenders: segregation, condemned protective custody, mental health, administrative detention reintegration management and medium security.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Belleville News

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin tours Tamms maximum security prison

After a 90-minute tour on Thursday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin emerged from the Tamms Correctional Center, the state's only supermax prison, praising its treatment of the mentally ill as the best in the country.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Daily Herald

Degorski being prepared for prison transfer

Twenty-four hours after receiving a life sentence, James Degorski's daily routine remains pretty much the same as it was 24 hours before he learned of his sentence.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

Belleville News

'Trapped in Tamms' series wins award

News-Democrat reporters George Pawlaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer were awarded the John Rowley Excellence in Journalism Award Saturday for their recent series, "Trapped In Tamms." The award was presented by the Illinois chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness during their annual educational conference in this Chicago suburb.

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Tue Oct 06, 2009

WBBM-AM Chicago

Former gang boss feeding spiders in prison

Once reputed to be a leader of one of the most violent Chicago gangs, The Two-Sixers, David Ayala now gathers insects to feed the spiders that spin their webs at the edges of his concrete exercise yard at the Tamms supermax prison.

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

Belleville News

Ex-Chicago gang boss spends days feeding spiders

Once reputed to be a leader of one of the most violent Chicago gangs, The Two-Sixers, David Ayala now gathers insects to feed the spiders that spin their webs at the edges of his concrete exercise yard at the Tamms supermax prison.

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Wed Sep 30, 2009

Daily Herald

Halt funding or fix Tamms prison

At Tamms supermax prison at the southern tip of Illinois, over 250 men are being held in permanent solitary confinement, year after year, with no communal activity or human contact of any kind.

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

The Daily Illini

Ill. early release plan cuts costs, crowding

In this Feb. 13, 2009, file photo inmate Damien Terry, right, has his shackles removed before being placed in his cell at the Tamms Correctional Center in Tamms, Ill.

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Thu Sep 24, 2009

WPSD-TV Paducah

Major Reform to Regional Prison System

A state department of corrections is getting a makeover designed to reduce crime in your neighborhood all while saving the money you pay to Uncle Sam.

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Mon Sep 21, 2009

Southeast Missourian

Aleshia, Micah, and Cindney's first concert

This is a picture of Aleshia Glastetter, Micah Boyd and Cidney Keller with Steve Hornbeak after the concert on September 19th 2009.

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Sat Sep 19, 2009

Belleville News

Tamms changes are just a start

Illinois is planning some desperately needed reforms at the Tamms Correctional Center supermax prison, and it's a good start, but more change is needed.

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The Daily Gazette

'Spires was sane at the time of prison attack,' according to second doctor

DIXON – Although he suffers from a psychotic disorder, there is no evidence to suggest that John Spires was insane when he held a prison psychologist hostage in May 2006, according to a forensic psychiatrist in the former Dixon inmate's rape trial.

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Fri Sep 18, 2009

WBEZ-FM Chicago

Quinn Supports Plan to Reform Tamms Supermax Prison

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says he supports calls for reform at Tamms prison. On Thursday, new corrections director Michael Randle recommended ten reforms, including hearings for prisoners being sent to the supermax prison.

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WAND-TV Decatur

Jury finds for former Tamms psychiatrist

Federal court jurors have ruled in favor of a former Tamms Correctional Center psychiatrist who was sued in federal court by an inmate.

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Thu Sep 17, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

New prisons chief plans more rehab, Tamms revamp

Gov. Quinn's new Department of Corrections Director, Michael Randle, announced Thursday new initiatives to divert more non-violent offenders from state prisons, better rehabilitate the ones that are there, and to reform the Downstate Tamms Correctional Center.

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Wed Sep 16, 2009

Belleville News

Tamms psychiatrist: Inmate cut himself to manipulate staff

During a civil trial Tuesday in federal court, Tamms supermax prison inmate Anthony Gay was described by the day's only witness as a "manipulator" who routinely cut or threatened to cut himself to get what he wanted from prison staff.

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Tue Sep 15, 2009

Belleville News

Durbin holds Senate subcommittee hearings on Tamms

The first-ever inquiry into a domestic human rights issue began in a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday morning with testimony on mental illness in U.S. prisons, prompted by an investigative News-Democrat series on the state's supermax prison at Tamms.

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Belleville News

Lawsuit alleges cruel, unusual punishment for Tamms inmate chained to bed

An attorney for a Tamms supermax prison inmate argued Monday in federal court that massive self-mutilation is a serious mental illness that should be treated with medication and therapy, not by strapping the naked prisoner to a metal bed frame for as long as 32 hours without food.

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Sun Sep 13, 2009

Belleville News

Complaint: Tamms kept medications from inmate

Shortly before he died at the supermax Tamms Correctional Center, prisoner Robert Foor filed an official grievance complaining that his medications for mental illness were being withheld as punishment for bad behavior.

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