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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The Wisconsin Women's Correctional System includes Taycheedah Correctional Institution and two adult female correctional centers. Male inmates entering the prison system first go to Dodge Correctional Institution before being given permanent assignments, and female inmates to Taycheedah Correctional Institution .
Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 26, 1987. The court decided that the warrantless search of a probationer's residence based on "reasonable grounds" in accordance with a state probation regulation did not violate the Fourth Amendment.
Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin's oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased, the governor announced in a move that comes less than a month after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging ...