Tamms Correctional Center - Tamms, Illinois/IL

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Tamms Correctional Center

Po Box 400, Tamms, IL, 62988-0400 -

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Definition of Terms

Tamms Correctional Center

School Level

High school

School Type

Other/alternative school

Grades Offered

Grades 12 - 12

County

Alexander County, IL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

7 students

% Male / % Female

100% / 0%

Total Classroom Teachers

3 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 12 - 7 students

This School

(IL) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:2

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(IL) School Average

% American Indian	14%	n/a
% Asian	n/a	2%
% Hispanic	14%	10%
% Black	71%	19%
% White	n/a	66%
% Unknown	1 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

(IL) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(IL) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Corrections 428 Dept Of School District

This School's Agency

(IL) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	39	3
Number of Students Managed	2,202 students	984 students
District Total Revenue	n/a	$9,428,000
District Expenditure	n/a	$9,311,000
District Revenue / Student	n/a	$9,581
District Expenditure / Student	n/a	$9,462
District Graduation Rates	n/a	92%

Ill. prisons chief: Questioned supermax 'evolving' (KWQC-TV 6 Davenport)
posted on November 20, 2009 at 07:04:52 pm
Associated Press - November 20, 2009 1:54 PM ET TAMMS, Ill. (AP) - The new chief of Illinois' prison system says there's a place for the super maximum-security prison in deep southern Illinois'...
Self-help books, shouted chess moves: Tamms tour gives glimpse of life behind bars for mentally ill (Belleville News-Democrat)
posted on November 20, 2009 at 08:17:59 am
Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday.
Public Safety 11/18/09 (The Pantagraph)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 12:11:35 am
POLICE, FIRE, RESCUE
Critics question Durbin's Tamms findings, say he didn't see area where inmates mutilate themselves (Belleville News-Democrat)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 08:06:08 am
When U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin left the supermax Tamms Correctional Center last week with praise for a mental health unit housing 12 inmates, he had failed to inspect the elevated security area where inmates regularly mutilate themselves and attempt suicide, critics said.
Durbin comfortable with mental health treatment at Tamms (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
posted on November 13, 2009 at 03:25:35 pm
TAMMS, Ill . -- The state's only supermax prison has been called into question in recent months over inmate-isolation practices that human-rights advocates consider inhumane.