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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 ...
Waupun, one of the state's five maximum-security prisons, has been the site of three in-custody deaths — one confirmed as suicide — during its monthslong state of lockdown.
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 ...
While campaigning in 2018, Evers also said he supported eventually reducing the state's prison population through the release of inmates for good behavior, expanding or creating court diversion ...
The prison is operated by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Groundbreaking occurred on June 18, 1999, and it opened on January 8, 2001. Boldt Construction Company built it for the state at a cost of $52.9 million. [1] The prison encompasses 89 acres of land, 22 acres of which are within the perimeter. [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]
Milwaukee Women's Correctional Center (women's prison, capacity 112) McNaughton Correctional Center (capacity 102) Oregon Correctional Center (capacity 120) Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center (women's prison, capacity 333) Sanger B. Powers Correctional Center (capacity 70) St. Croix Correctional Center (capacity 120 male and 12 female)
Only about 8% of Wisconsin's roughly 20,000 prisoners in custody today were sentenced under the old parole system. What to know about parole, truth in sentencing and when people can get out of ...