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ILLINOIS EXCHANGE: Tamms spending questioned

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

ILLINOIS EXCHANGE: Tamms spending questioned By GEORGE PAWLACZYK and BETH HUNDSDORFER Belleville News-Democrat December 31, 2009 Chicago Tribune TAMMS, Ill. - 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. The per-year cost to operate the solitary-confinement-only Tamms Correctional Center has grown to at least $16 million -- $64,000 per prisoner, according to figures provided by the state. The amount is two to three times what is spent annually to house an inmate at the three other maximum security lockups in Illinois. However, the actual per-inmate cost of running the Tamms supermax is undoubtedly much higher, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections 2008 Annual Report...continue to full post

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