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Amnesty International: USA: Conditions must be improved at Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Document - USA: Conditions must be improved at Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI index: AMR 51/042/2009 25 March 2009 USA: Conditions must be improved at Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois According to Amnesty International?s information, prisoners at Tamms are confined alone for 23 or 24 hours a day in sparsely equipped concrete cells, with no work or group educational or recreational programs. All meals are taken in the cells. Prisoners exercise alone for a maximum of 5-7 hours a week in a high-walled, bare, partially-covered yard with no view apart from a small section of sky. The cell doors are made of heavy gauge perforated steel and are difficult to see through, compounding the sense of isolation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).