THE TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN - Friday, August 1
Posted by Insight Arts at 7/30/2008 4:57 PM 
Categories: Events - Upcoming,Upcoming Events,Participation
Categories: Events - Upcoming,Upcoming Events,Participation
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 6 PM - 9 PM
THE TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN
Presented by Insight Arts
In 1998, the first prisoners were transferred from prisons across the state to Tamms CMAX, in Southern Illinois. This new “supermax” prison, designed to keep men in constant solitary confinement, was intended for short-term incarceration. The IDOC called it a one-year “shock treatment.” Now, ten years later, many of the original prisoners have been there for a decade. They have lived in isolation 24/7—no human contact, no phone calls, no programming, no communal activity.
Year Ten is a coalition of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists, activists and concerned citizens who have come together to protest the misguided and inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX, and to call for an end to state-sanctioned torture. We have initiated a program of cultural, educational and political events to publicize Tamms on the anniversary of its opening.
For more information please go to www.yearten.org
This event is FREE!
At Insight Arts' Center For New Possibilities
1505 West Morse Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Thanks Insight for hosting this event. It should be great!
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It's great that the citizens of Illinois have come together to bring attention and/or resoultion to the in-human treatment some Illinois prisoners are subjected to while incarcerated at the Tamms Super-Max prison. The treatment prisoners receive at Tamms is errily similar to the 16th Century confinement of men (and women) to castle dungons for indefinite periods of time or until death. This type of treatment of prisoners in modern-day America is clearly wrong and out-dated. Support the Tamms Year Ten Organization!
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I'm an Obama supporter, but I seem to remember Mr. Monroe's name in connection with a notorious crime in my hometown of Evanston some years ago.
Am I right?
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