{"id":526,"date":"2012-02-22T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=526"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:30","slug":"illinois-only-supermax-may-shortly-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2012\/02\/22\/illinois-only-supermax-may-shortly-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois&#8217; only supermax may shortly close!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_527\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/02\/436-s-JAIL-large.embedded.prod_affiliate.98.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-527\" class=\"size-full wp-image-527\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/02\/436-s-JAIL-large.embedded.prod_affiliate.98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamms Correctional Center- AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed closing Tamms Correctional Center, the state&#8217;s only supermax prison. Even if driven by <a href=\"ww.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-bc-il--illinoisbudget-prisons,0,1173325.story\">economic efficiency concerns<\/a>, this action could put an end to prison conditions that have caused a mental health crisis, precipitated, among other reasons, by the fact that the 200 inmates held at Tamms have lived in almost continuous solitary confinement. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/2012\/02\/21\/2068094\/quinn-proposes-closure-of-supermax.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois residents can support this proposal and the Tamms Year Ten Committee&#8217;s work by following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/org2.democracyinaction.org\/o\/6220\/content_item\/tammsaction\">this link<\/a> and making a call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed closing Tamms Correctional Center, the state&#8217;s only supermax prison. Even if driven by economic efficiency concerns, this action could put an end to prison conditions that have caused a mental health crisis, precipitated, among other reasons, by the fact that the 200 inmates held at Tamms have lived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-prison-conditions","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}