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The correctional centers system contains 16 relatively small minimum-security facilities, two of which house female inmates. [1] Black River Correctional Center [1] (capacity 114) Drug Abuse Correctional Center (capacity 300) Felmers O. Chaney Correctional Center (capacity 100) Flambeau Correctional Center (capacity 80)
The Wisconsin Correctional Center System consists of 14 adult male facilities statewide that assist inmates in reintegration to the community. [10] The Wisconsin Women's Correctional System includes Taycheedah Correctional Institution and two adult female correctional centers.
On July 4, 1851, Governor Nelson Dewey selected the Waupun area to be the site of the Wisconsin State Prison. A temporary structure opened in 1851. It could hold a maximum of 40 inmates, and was intended to be used only until the completion of a wing of the main prison. By December 31, 1852, 27 inmates were held there.
It has an area of 27 acres (11 ha) inside the perimeter fence. Columbia Correctional Institution opened in May 1986, with an original capacity of 450 inmates housed in single bed cells. In 1997, a 150-bed barracks was constructed for minimum security inmates and over time many of the single bed cells have been converted to double bed cells.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford (FCI Oxford) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Wisconsin. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCI Oxford is located in Adams County, in central Wisconsin, 60 miles north of Madison, the state capital. [1]
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 ...
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The prison was originally known as the "Wisconsin State Reformatory" (WSR). In 1972, WSR became an adult male, maximum-security prison. The name was changed to the Green Bay Correctional Institution on July 1, 1979. The prison was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the "Wisconsin State Reformatory" in 1990.