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Media Tours Pontiac Prision

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The warden at the maximum-security prison in Pontiac says there have been no problems or violent incidents with inmates shipped in from the now-closed Tamms Correctional Center.

Following a media tour Friday, Randy Pfister  said that his staff made expectations clear to the roughly 160 inmates transferred in December from Tamms. That's when Gov. Pat Quinn ordered the ``supermax'' prison in southern Illinois closed because of its high cost. But Pfister did not take reporters through the section of the north cell house where the most violent ex-Tamms prisoners are housed. Reporters did see a gallery of cells housing former Tamms residents.

 

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