Gov. Pat Quinn will close the Tamms Super Max prison and Dwight women's prison, effective August 31. Quinn also will close juvenile justice centers in Joilet and Murphysboro. News of the closures broke Tuesday afternoon when facility employees got a letter from Quinn announcing the closures.
As PI reported, the budget passed by the Illinois General Assembly appropriated money for the facilities. But the governor had the option to not spend the money, which is about $62 million that will now not be used in the Department of Corrections budget.
The closures could lead to the layoffs of up to 1,100 state employees. AFSCME, the state's main public employees union, opposed the closures — warning that they not only mean layoffs, but also pose a danger to public safety.
Governor Quinn's decision to close Dwight and Tamms is the only decision that makes sense on fiscal, safety, and human rights grounds.
Dwight is an aging prison large parts of which are not useable without millions of dollars of repairs--new roofs are needed, the water is unfit to drink, and the facility is in general disrepair. Repairing Dwight to make it functional takes money the state does not have. Illinois imprisons far too many women convicted of non-violent crimes. Dwight simply isn't worth the cost of repair.
Tamms has been a sinkhole for taxpayer funds since it opened. During the fourteen years since Tamms opened, there has been no evidence based proof that Tamms has improved the safety of the public, or of the prison system. Instead, Tamms now houses dozens of men who suffer from serious mental illness. Left alone in their cells 24 hours a day, with no medical treatment, they deteriorate. Many have engaged in severe self-mutilation, and other dissociative behavior which cries out for medical intervention--not punitive isolation.
The money spent on Dwight and Tamms needs to be allocated to evidence based programs which will actually keep Illinois safe.
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