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 administering lethal injections.[1] Andrew Kokoraleis was executed at Tamms in 1999.[2]Former Richard M. Flood was one of the first persons taken to Tamms when it opened in 1998 and was subsequently released in 2000.
References
- Tamms Correctional Center Illinois Department of Corrections
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