Should mentally ill prisoners be transferred from the Tamms Supermax Prison to secure mental health facilities?

If there were actually inmates with legitimate mental health issues then possibly, but I can tel you for a fact that the inmates at Tamms are not mentally ill but very effective manipulators of the system. They realize that their only option of leaving that facility is through uneducated and easily manipulated people as you. Their manipulation of the system will most likely get the public to actually feel sorry for these murderers, sex offenders, and gang chiefs and eventually put enough pressure on the elected officials to actually give in to these demands and close down Tamms. This will destroy the Correctional setting and send the institutions back the the days where gangs ran the facilities without any fear of repercussions. Tamms has been a major deterrent for gang member to step up and take over publicly for fear of being sent to Tamms. This has kept violence down and actually helped all inmates who actually just want to do their time without the threats of gangs influencing them as they have done in the past prior to the Tamms effect. So go ahead and be a bunch of idiots and try your tactics to return the facilities back to the old days. You will only be hurting the family members that are incarcerated in the long run. They will be the ones who truly suffer for your stupidity.

The person who wrote the comment above indicts the entire IDOC system. Does he really believe that burying alive 250 guys at Tamms is preventing the 40,000 prisoners at other faclities from running amok? Are the guards and staff at Menard, Pontiac, Stateville etc. so corrupt or incompetent that they are just waiting for Tamms to close to hand over control of the prison to the inmates?

Way to twist the facts "Tamms." Don't rewrite the history here.

Yes, the gangs had taken over the prisons WAY BEFORE Tamms was ever built. WHY? BECAUSE THE IDOC HANDED OVER THE PRISON TO THEM! Then, once the IDOC, embarrassed by the Richard Speck tapes, decided to take control of their own prisons with sane policies, gang activity plummeted. But, you all put these men in Tamms to blame them for it. The system had already changed by the time Tamms was built years later. OMG. If you cared about public safety, you would care about the facts.