6 Illinois Prisons To Set Up Temporary Housing

6 Illinois prisons to set up temporary housing Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 6:17 pm, Thursday, February 14, 2013 (AP) — Security is being undermined at Illinois' prisons because of overcrowding and the need for space, a prison watchdog group said Thursday after state officials confirmed that six medium-security prisons would be using gymnasiums to temporarily house extra inmates. A spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections said officials are preparing a half-dozen prisons but declined to say whether they're linked to the Dwight shutdown or how many low-level offenders would be housed in the interim space. The temporary housing poses safety concerns for a prison system that has 49,000 inmates in space designed for 33,000, combined with too few employees to watch them, said John Maki, executive director of the John Howard Association, a not-for-profit group that tracks the state's prison system. The Corrections Department disclosed the setup in a letter to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, as part of a contractual requirement to notify and discuss such changes with its workers' union. The union claims those alleged troublemakers would have been exiled at the super-security Tamms prison before Gov.

 

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