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IL: Treatment of prisoners 'need not be this harsh,' watchdog group contends

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Toughest prison still grim: report TAMMS | Treatment of inmates 'need not be this harsh,' watchdog group contends Chicago Sun Times November 20, 2010 BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN AND DAVE McKINNEY Staff Reporters A prison watchdog group's recent report details the lives of Illinois' worst convicts, unveiling a bleak portrait where socially deprived and mentally unstable inmates stare at colorless walls, engage in self-mutilation and graze on bland meatloaf when they misbehave. Conditions at the all-male Tamms Correctional Center 360 miles south of Chicago have been criticized by human-rights and prison-advocacy organizations since the $73 million, 500-bed facility opened in 1998. ? ? Tamms Correctional Center is on 236 acres of land just north of Tamms on Illinois 127 in Alexander County...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 21, 2010 (boomark / email).