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IL: Allegations of Human Rights Abuses at Tamms super max during Senate hearing on mental health in prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?Mental illness has been criminalized in our country over the last 30 years,? Durbin said. ?By allowing our prisons and jails to become a primary provider of mental health services, we have taken a step backward in the effort to protect the human rights of people with mental illness.? Tamms super max discussed during Senate hearing on mental health in prisons BY CALEB HALE, The Southern WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Allegations of human rights violations at the super maximum security Tamms Correctional Center in Alexander County were part of a hearing in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law heard from Illinois Department of Corrections Director Michael Randle and others in its first-ever hearing related to a domestic human rights issue ? mental health in U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).