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| 'Supermax' Tamms prison unlikely to reopen |
| By herald-review.com- Kurt Erickson |
| Published: 05/18/2015 |
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SPRINGFIELD – Despite overcrowding within the state's sprawling prison system, there appears to be little support for reopening the now-empty super-maximum security prison in Tamms. The prison, built to house up to 500 of the state's most violent inmates, has been empty since January 2013, after former Gov. Pat Quinn ordered the closure of dozens of state facilities to cut the state budget. An adjacent 200-bed minimum security unit work camp also was idled. Freshman state Rep. Terri Bryant, a Murphysboro Republican, has been pushing lawmakers to join her in urging Gov. Bruce Rauner to reopen the facility at the southern tip of Illinois. "I think there is a pressure building within all of the facilities that has to be relieved somehow. I think that's only going to be relived by either kicking inmates out or creating some more bed space," Bryant said in a recent interview. Read More. |
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