Tamms Correctional Center
- Tamms Correctional Center
The Tamms Correctional Center is a prison located in Alexander County, Illinois north of Tamms, Illinois. The prison has two sections, a 200 bed minimum security facility opened in 1995, and a 500 bed maximum security facility known as CMAX opened in 1998. The CMAX facility houses the most disruptive and violent inmates, deemed unsafe to house with the general prison population.
The prison houses an execution chamber, for adminstering lethal injections. [ [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/01/06/030106fa_fact?currentPage=5 TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL] The New Yorker] Andrew Kokoraleis was executed at Tamms in 1999. [http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dpill/Exec/12koko.html] This prison also holds infamous gang leader of the Gangster Two Six David Ayala.
References
* [http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/facilities/information.asp?instchoice=tam Tamms Correctional Center] Illinois Department of Corrections
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