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Alexander County First Circuit Judge Charles C. Cavaness, Cairo IL, granted a temporary restraining order for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on April 3, 2012, concerning the closure of the Tamms facility.

Judge Cavaness granted a 30-day restraining order pertaining to the cease of prisoner transfers related to facility closures on Sept. 4, 2012. The state appealed Sept. 6..

The Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon denied the state’s appeal of the 30-day restraining order of prisoner transfers in September 2012. Justice Melissa A. Chapman delivered the opinion. Justices Thomas M. Welch and Stephen L. Spomer concurred."