<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">So what should be done? What should Illinois citizens be pushing for?<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 13, 2012, at 6:35 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Tamms is in an economically depressed area with little industry other than agriculture<br> and agriculture employs very few people. <br> <br> Illinois does not provide an environment<br> conducive to industrial employment and business development, so it is quite unlikely<br> that any new employer will come into the area. The general policy and theme for the past 20 years has been<br> that "you won't make Widgets in southern Illinois".<br> <br> So if you close Tamms prison you will put people out of work, and you will put them out of work rather permanently, <br> which will raise significant opposition against your principled cry against incarceration, torture, <br> the Police state, and the legal-law enforcement-penal industrial complex of authoritarian worms.<br> <br> You may be doing the right thing in one sense, but you will be creating another<br> problem in damaging the commensal/co-parasitic relationship between Big Brother<br> and the impoverished Tamms area.<br> <br> You can de-worm the horse and kill all the worms almost instantly. But the<br> if the infestation is heavy, the gut will look like hamburger after the worms detach and <br> the sudden removal of the worms may likely<br> result in the sudden demise of the parasite's host.<br> <br> Likewise, closure of Tamms will decimate the local economy. We can agree<br> that the idea of prisons sucked from the beginning. But the inmates are not the <br> only ones in prison.<br> <br> <br> On 5/14/2012 6:36 AM, Stuart Levy wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4FB0375C.2000302@illinois.edu" type="cite"> Yes! AWARE just voted that we would be happy to be on the list of groups that support closure of TAMMS.<br> <br> On 5/13/12 2:09 PM, Barbara kessel wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAEio6CuS6zdZm=8arUEkZHUGMWvfhQecah-1Ki-MmOXDSSe60g@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> Here is the list I asked you to add AWARE on to at your meeting tonight. the list will go to Governor Q on Tuesday morning. <div>Thanks, Barbara<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br> From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Barbara kessel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com">barkes@gmail.com</a>></span><br> Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM<br> Subject: Could we agree by e-mail to add the Interfaith Alliance?<br> To: Conrad Wetzel <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:wetzelmc@hotmail.com">wetzelmc@hotmail.com</a>>, Nancy Stagg <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:nsstagg@sbcglobal.net">nsstagg@sbcglobal.net</a>>, "Rev. Vanessa Buchanan" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Rev.v.Buchanan@gmail.com">Rev.v.Buchanan@gmail.com</a>>, Eric Jakobsson <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jake@ncsa.illinois.edu">jake@ncsa.illinois.edu</a>>, "Rev. Underwood" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kingjames5804@att.net">kingjames5804@att.net</a>>, Patsy Howell <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ummtamala@yahoo.com">ummtamala@yahoo.com</a>><br> Cc: Laurie Jo Reynolds <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lauriejoreynolds@gmail.com">lauriejoreynolds@gmail.com</a>><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br> From: <b class="gmail_sendername">LJ Reynolds</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lauriejoreynolds@gmail.com" target="_blank">lauriejoreynolds@gmail.com</a>></span><br> Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:16 AM<br> Subject: Fwd: list of organizations that support closure<br> To: barbara kessel <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:barkes@gmail.com" target="_blank">barkes@gmail.com</a>><br> <br> <br> Hi Barbara,<br> We are in Springfield now. We are going to give legislators and the governor a list of organizations that support the closure of Tamms. Maybe not today, but soon. I'm adding some organizations to the fact sheet.<br> <br> What organizations that you are part of may we add to the list?<br> Or maybe you know of others?<br> <br> I will send the revised fact sheet soon.<br> <br> <br> LJR<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:773-505-3896" value="+17735053896" target="_blank">773-505-3896</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Organizations that support Tamms closure<br> <br> ACLU of Illinois<br> ACLU Prison Project<br> Amnesty International<br> Amnesty International Midwest Regional Office<br> Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law<br> Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression<br> Human Rights Watch<br> Illinois Coalition Against Torture<br> John Howard Association of Illinois<br> Mental Health America of Illinois<br> Mental Health Summit<br> Midwest Coalition for Human Rights<br> National Lawyers Guild of Chicago<br> National Religious Campaign Against Torture<br> Uptown People's Law Center<br> Tamms Year Ten<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </div> <br> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><hr size="4" width="90%">
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