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According to the Commissioner of the State Prison, it was to be constructed of stone using prison labor. [3] Additions were made over the years in 1855, 1906, 1913, 1940, and 1998. The prison was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the "Wisconsin State Prison Historic District" in 1992. [4]
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 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]
MADISON - Two months after Gov. Tony Evers issued a statement vowing action on bleak circumstances in some of the state's prisons, little appears to have changed.
The warden and eight other staff members at a Wisconsin prison face charges in the death of two ... No charges were filed over Lemons’ death but several prison employees were arrested in ...
Wisconsin's Department of Corrections has long been criticized for its lack of transparency when it comes to reporting in-custody deaths. Wisconsin's DOC doesn't notify the public when a prisoner ...
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.
Waupun Correctional Institution, the first prison to open in Wisconsin, has suffered from understaffing that resulted in a lockdown in March 2023. ... Nearly half of the jobs at Waupun, 43%, were ...