“Reform Advocates Celebrate “Supermax” Tamms Prison Closing” @ Truth-out

Posted on January 14, 2013

Yana Kunichoff — January 13, 2013: “The Tamms prison in Illinois, which helped fuel a nationwide movement against solitary confinement and “supermax” prisons, shut its doors on January 4.

Prison reform advocates celebrated the closure, which they say ends more than a decade of torture for the men incarcerated inside Tamms…………….”