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Governor Pat Quinn selected Michael P. Randle to head the state's Department of Corrections. Randle. Randle served as the assistant director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and will replace Director Roger Walker, a Blagojevich appointment. Prior to naming Randle, Quinn announced that he would make reviewing Tamms Correctional Center, the state's supermax prison, a priority.

Governor Quinn said Tuesday that he would soon name a new state corrections director, and that one of his top priorities for that post is a review of conditions at the state's Tamms Correctional Center, the state's supermax prison downstate. The facility, which keeps male prisoners in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, was designed to be a one-year "shock treatment" facility, a place to house the worst of the worst for short periods. According to human rights groups, however, over one-third of the inmates in Tamms have been there for over ten years. The regimen of long-term isolation, however, has been criticized by prisoner and human rights groups.