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The family of Dean Hoffmann, who died by suicide at Waupun Correctional Institution last year, filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Tuesday, alleging his civil rights ...
October 26, 2023: Waupun prisoners file class action lawsuit. Lonnie Story, a Florida-based attorney licensed in Wisconsin, files a class action lawsuit on behalf of nearly a dozen prisoners at ...
Three of the four deaths are subject to federal lawsuits. The state Department of Corrections is investigating the prison’s operations, and the governor last year asked the U.S. Department of ...
Loomis v. Wisconsin, 881 N.W.2d 749 (Wis. 2016), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 2290 (2017), was a Wisconsin Supreme Court case that was appealed to the United States Supreme Court. [1] The case challenged the State of Wisconsin's use of closed-source risk assessment software in the sentencing of Eric Loomis to six years in prison. [2]
In October 2003, the prison was renamed to the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility. [5] In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WIDOC), trying to force the agency to release a video of an explosion of a stinger grenade launched into a prisoner's cell. [6]
The suit alleges the medical, mental and dental care at the Waupun prison is "grossly inadequate" and the conditions of the lockdown are dire. Lawsuit alleges 'cruel and unusual' conditions amid ...
The website displays the case information entered into the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) case management system by court staff in the counties where the case files are located. The court record summaries provided by the system are all public records under Wisconsin open records law sections 19.31-19.39 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
The Wisconsin Watch analysis does not include more than $25 million in settlements and legal fees related to allegations of abuse at Wisconsin’s only youth prison at Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake.