In short, the explosion of “supermax” prisons was a costly mistake. Now Illinois has the opportunity to close its “supermax” as Gov. Pat Quinn tries to cut the state budget to make up for ...

Illinois is the latest state poised to close its only supermaximum security prison, the Tamms Correctional Center. Human-rights groups routinely criticize Supermax prisons for keeping prisoners in ...

The average annual price of housing an Illinois inmate is $16,000; Tamms probably will come close to the national average for supermax prisons, about $35,000-40,000 an inmate, Welborn said.

One of the more contentious episodes in the history of Illinois penitentiaries ended Friday as the last inmates held at the "supermax" prison in Tamms moved out and Gov. Pat Quinn's administration ...

Illinois’ new $60 million supermaximum ... Among the municipalities bidding for the supermax prison, the closest to the Chicago area is Pembroke Township in southeast Kankakee County, said ...

14 of 1 percent of the people who have gone to Illinois prisons in that time ... found 'prolonged confinement in supermax may be the state's only option for control of some inmates,' including ...

This post is the first part in our series on the closing of Tamms Supermax Prison. Here’s to starting the New Year right. The notorious Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois, with its practice of ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of the ...

The notorious Tamms “supermax” prison in Illinois has officially closed its doors following the transfer of the last of its prisoners. Prisoners’ advocates and family members led a campaign ...

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However, there was nothing in his juvenile record to suggest that Gay would end up where he is today -- serving 99 years in solitary confinement at Illinois' supermax prison, the Tamms ...

In 2000, more than half of the incarcerated individuals at the Tamms Supermax prison in downstate Illinois began a hunger strike protesting treatment of mentally ill prisoners and indefinite ...