Put simply, men were sent to Tamms to disappear.

Published by the American Civil Liberties Union, “Refusing to Disappear: Prisoners at Tamms and their Families Conducted a Sustained Advocacy Campaign to Shut this “Supermax” Down” was written by Alan Mills, Legal Director, Uptown People’s Law Center.

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The notorious Tamms Correctional Center in Illinois officially shut its doors on January 4th, 2013. Like other “supermax” prisons, Tamms symbolized the ever more punitive, dehumanizing, and ineffective state of our criminal justice system, in which entire institutions are built to hold prisoners in extreme solitary confinement. With Tamms closed, we are one step closer to stopping solitary.

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