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Tamms IL: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel- Interview by Gregory Sholette of Laurie Jo Reynolds of the Tamms Ten Year Project

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel Interview by Gregory Sholette of Laurie Jo Reynolds of the Tamms Ten Year Project Posted: October 31, 2010 For slides of the Project go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-sholette/artist-shows-supermax-pri_1_b_776761.html#slide_image Two years ago this November, President Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and reiterated his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. This promise was seen by many as a first step to ending interrogation and torture methods employed by the United States government. But as of July 2010, detainees remain at Guantanamo and little has been done to change U.S. interrogation policy. With the growth of supermax prisons, rising incarceration rates, and the influence of prison guard unions in states like California, prison reform is an issue the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).