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For years, human rights advocates have been pressing Illinois officials to clean up one of the state's dirtiest secrets: the human rights abuses taking place inside Tamms Correctional Center, the state's lone supermax facility. The prison has become notorious for locking ...

The pressure on the Quinn administration to reform the Tamms Correctional Center continues to grow. Yesterday, the U.S. director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a sharply worded letter to the governor, highlighting the investigative work of the Belleville News Democrat, ...

Back in May, Gov. Pat Quinn called for an examination of the policies at Tamms Correctional Center in response to criticism that prisoners are languishing there in solitary confinement -- in some cases for more than a decade -- despite its intended purpose as a short-term ...

There's more fallout from the recent revelations
that Iowa-based Agriprocessors Inc. -- the nation’s largest kosher
meatpacker, which gained notoriety after a vicious Immigration Customs &
Enforcement raid in May -- allegedly hired child laborers.

Via the New ...

Earlier this year, immigrants rights advocates voiced their outrage over
the shameful treatment of 400 undocumented workers who
were arrested by Immigration Customs & Enforcement during a raid of Agriprocessors, a Postville, Iowa kosher
meatpacking plant.  The ...

Today, Amnesty International used Chicago's standing as a possible host for the 2016 Summer Olympics to shine a light on the city’s “flawed approach” to probing incidents of police brutality. The Sun-Times' Fran Spielman has the details: At a news conference ...