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The organization is based in Madison, WI and was founded in 2006. WBTP is affiliated with feminist bookstore A Room Of Ones Own, and is additionally supported by Half Price Books and Voyageur Book Shop. [2] LGBT Books to Prisoners, also headquartered in Madison, began as an offshoot of WPTP in 2007. [3]
Due to Robert Lee Stinson's proximity and Johnson's testimony, which was later analyzed by Raymond Rawson (both members of the American Board of Forensic Odontology), he was sentenced to life in prison. [2] In 2005, the Wisconsin Innocence Project took up Stinson's case and alleged that the forensic evidence was faulty, and DNA evidence was ...
Seventeen bills aimed at addressing the conditions inside Wisconsin's prisons were introduced last year, spearheaded by Rep. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, and Clancy, but none came to fruition.
The Wisconsin State Prison operated a number of farms as part of its rehabilitation program for prisoners. It owned 367 acres of land in the town of Chester, 400 acres in the town of Trenton, and rented 960 acres with another 657 acres arranged to be rented by October 1, 1918. Total farm revenues reported on June 30, 1918 were $32,151.84, which ...
Racine Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison and one of the 36 adult correctional institutions in Wisconsin, houses 11,000 books, according to Beth Hardtke, director of communications ...
There were no concerns of staff misconduct in Lemons' death, Schmidt said, at the same time adding that investigators are worried about widespread contraband smuggling at the prison.
The first two inmates were transferred from the nearby Waupun Correctional Institution to DCI on May 15, 1978. On October 29, 1993, ground was broken for a $45 million expansion which more than doubled the size of the facility.
Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...