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Illinois scales back Tamms prison rules

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Tamms Correctional Center, Illinois' only super-maximum-security prison in Tamms. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is softening its promise that inmates transferred from the high-security Tamms prison after it closes to Pontiac will be under 'identical' security rules.

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This combination photo provided by The Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmates Gregory Rhodes, left, and Robert Boyd, right, who are among the more than 100 inmates that could be transferred from the high-security Tamms prison to Pontiac. Boyd and Rhodes were both shipped to Tamms after getting in trouble at Pontiac and though not moved yet, could be returned to the very place where their troubles began.

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Illinois' prison chief has changed some security rules for inmates transferred from the high-security Tamms prison when it closes, despite a promise to lawmakers that the exacting standards for managing the state's most dangerous inmates would follow them to their new lock-up. The agency won't release the obsolete plan, but the rules now in place mean fewer officers and fewer chains on inmates when they're out of their cells at their new home, the maximum-security prison at Pontiac.