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Supermax Subscriptions at Tamms Supermax

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hello all, Two weeks ago, Supermax Subscriptions sent a mailing asking every man incarcerated at Tamms C-Max unit if they would like to receive magazine subscriptions: free gifts from people with surplus airline award miles that they'd like to exchange for gift subscriptions. Tamms C-Max is a no contact, permanent solitary confinement prison in Southern Illinois. The men have been there for years on end ? many for ten years. They have no communal activity, no phone calls, no programs, no education, no work, no librarian, and virtually no reading. Already, over ten percent of the population has replied to our mailing. The magazine requests are pouring in and we have men who would like to receive everything from Newsweek to the Wall Street Journal to Horse Illustrated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).