With the fate of Tamms supermax prison at an impasse, those who support its closure made the case today that the facility must shut down on human
rights grounds.
Advocates with the Tamms Year Ten coalition spoke grimly of the 23-hour daily solitary confinement experienced by inmates who are
fed through slots in cell doors and often deal with sensory
deprivation. Speakers noted that both Amnesty International and the ACLU condemn the prison for violating international human rights agreements.
“This is a moral issue,” declared U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Chicago). Read more »
Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law today a bill to abolish the widely
derided legislative scholarship program for which Illinois General
Assembly members give college tuition waivers to people in their
district. Quinn’s signing ceremony coincides with the ChicagoSun-Times’revealing that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald started a criminal
probe into State Sen. Annazette Collin’s (D-Chicago) use of the
scholarships.
Quinn, who entered the governor’s mansion in 2009 as
a reputed government reformer, noted in a statement that that
“abolishing the century-old political scholarship program” was an
“ethics reform goal since taking office.” Read more »
With the fate of Tamms supermax prison at an impasse, those who support its closure made the case today that the facility must shut down on human
rights grounds.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law today a bill to abolish the widely
derided legislative scholarship program for which Illinois General
Assembly members give college tuition waivers to people in their
district. Quinn’s signing ceremony coincides with the Chicago Sun-Times’
