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Comprehensive News Feed for Tamms, IL.
Results 1 - 20 of 67 in Tamms, IL
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Tamms prison spending questioned
Tamms Correctional Center is seen Nov. 19 in Tamms. The per-year cost to operate the solitary-confinement-only prison has grown to at least $16 million, $64,000 a prisoner, according to figures provided by the state. Comment?
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Is it worth it? State spends $92,000 per year per inmate to run Tamms prison
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 state. Comment?
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Report: Tamms inmates each cost $92,000 per year
... what it would at any of the state's other three maximum-security lockups. The state says it's per-year cost to run the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois amounts to about $64,000 per prisoner. But the Belleville News-Democrat reports ... Comment?
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Tamms: Inmate Formal Hearings
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... by three dozen inmates. Murphy says he'll rule by Jan. 1. Murphy has presided over a string of lawsuits involving the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois' Alexander County for nearly a decade. At issue is whether conditions at Tamms are ... Comment?
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Judge to rule soon in Tamms inmate-hearings matter
... by three dozen inmates. Murphy says he'll rule by Jan. 1. Murphy has presided over a string of lawsuits involving the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois' Alexander County for nearly a decade. At issue is whether conditions at Tamms are ... Comment?
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Decision time for Tamms: Judge to rule on inmate hearings soon
Whether state prison inmates should receive a formal hearing before being transferred to Illinois' toughest lockup -- the Tamms Correctional Center -- will be decided by a federal judge who has presided over a string of lawsuits concerning this prison for nearly a decade. Comment?
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Judge to decide on hearings at Tamms by Jan. 1
Whether state prison inmates should receive a formal hearing before being transferred to Illinois' toughest lockup -- the Tamms Correctional Center -- will be decided by a federal judge who has presided over a string of lawsuits concerning this prison for nearly a decade. Comment?
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Judge to decide by Jan. 1 in lawsuit about conditions at Tamms prison
Whether state prison inmates should receive a formal hearing before being transferred to Illinois' toughest lockup -- the Tamms Correctional Center -- will be decided by a federal judge who has presided over a string of lawsuits concerning this prison for nearly a decade. Comment?
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Self-help books, shouted chess moves: Tamms tour gives glimpse of life behind bars for mentally ill
Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday. Comment?
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There were 460 dime-size holes in the door of Reginald Berry's cell at Tamms Correctional Center. Comment?
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Officials open prison to show off reforms
TAMMS, Ill. -- Although he's confined to his cell for all but about an hour on most days, Steven Wuebbels doesn't mind being isolated at Illinois' lone "supermax" prison -- a place human rights activists consider inhumane. Comment?
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Chief opens Tamms to show reforms
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This Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 picture shows the Tamms Correctional Center closed maximum security facility in Tamms, Ill. Comment?
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Self-help books, shouted chess moves: Tamms tour gives glimpse of life behind bars for mentally ill
Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday. Comment?
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Tamms shows use of "supermax" prisons
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... vents by doing jumping jacks and push-ups. He figures if he ever had to share a 7-by-12-foot cell at the 11-year-old Tamms Correctional Center, either he or his cellmate would come out in a body bag. "As long as I'm in segregation, I know I'm in the ... Comment?
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Ill. prisons chief: Questioned supermax 'evolving'
... prison in deep southern Illinois' Alexander County. But Mike Randle says there's a reform effort under way at the Tamms Correctional Center, where critics say inmates being forced to spend 23 hours in isolation is inhumane. Randle offered reporters ... Comment?
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Mentally ill prisoners talk during Tamms tour
Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday. Comment?
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The supermax prison is Tamms, Illinois has been criticized for its treatment of inmates. Comment?
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Ill. prison claims improved conditions
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The supermax prison is Tamms, Illinois has been criticized for its treatment of inmates. Comment?
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Durbin OK with Tammsa mental health care p
But Sen. Dick Durbin says he's comfortable with the mental-health treatment prisoners are receiving at the Tamms Correctional Center. Comment?
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Durbin comfortable with mental health treatment at Tamms
TAMMS, Ill . -- The state's only supermax prison has been called into question in recent months over inmate-isolation practices that human-rights advocates consider inhumane. Comment?
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