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Menard Correctional Center is the largest maximum security prison in the state of Illinois. A December 2011 report by the John Howard Association, a prison watchdog group, depicts Menard as decrepit, overcrowded, violent, and subject to frequent lockdowns. In the Segregation Unit, two men are housed, often in continuous 24-hour-a-day confinement, in cells designed for one person. The cells […]

Voices from Solitary

Illinois

Voices from Solitary: 13.5 Square Feet

The Art of Activism: Closing Tamms Supermax

Guarding the Fortresses: How Prison Policies Limit Media Access to Solitary Confinement

Journalists Barred from Prison Isolation Units

Solidarity and Solitary: When Unions Clash With Prison Reform

Feds to Open New Supermax Prison Cells at “Gitmo North”

The End of Tamms Supermax

Tamms Supermax: Report Reveals More Guards Than Prisoners, Soaring Costs

Tamms Supermax Prison Closure Temporarily Halted

Shutting Down a Supermax: An Interview With Alan Mills of the Uptown People’s Law Center

Voices from Solitary: “I Lost the Will to Live”

Testimony from Hearing on Closure of Tamms Supermax Prison

Leading Mental Health Experts Urge Illinois Legislators to Close Tamms Supermax

Illinois Governor Proposes Closing Controversial Tamms Supermax Prison

Illinois Prisoner Says Years of Solitary Confinement Caused Mental Illness, Self-Mutilation

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Obama and Bureau of Prisons Lowball Supermax Costs

Federal Judge: Extended Solitary Confinement Causes “Lasting Psychological Damage and Emotional Harm”

Two for One: Guantanamo Won’t Close, But Illinois Supermax Will Open

No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement

Obama’s Plan Is the “Wrong Way to Close Guantanamo,” Groups Warn

If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax