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The sister of Tyshun Lemons, who died of an accidental overdose, files a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, alleging that Lemons’ constitutional rights were violated.
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 ...
The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle 's Books to Prisoners, Boston 's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986.
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.
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 ...
Jake Patterson – murderer and kidnapper, since relocated to a New Mexico prison. [10] John Schrank – attempted assassin of Theodore Roosevelt was at Central State Hospital and died there. [11] Chai Vang, convicted of murdering six people, since relocated to Iowa State Penitentiary. [12]
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