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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.
Albion, Pennsylvania: Also close-security State Correctional Institution – Benner Township: Benner Township, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Coal Township: Coal Township, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Chester: Chester, Pennsylvania: Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance use and be ...
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)
WAUPUN – Wisconsin's oldest prison has been under continued scrutiny for lockdowns, inmate deaths, and now misconduct and abuse arrests. Between June 2023 and February 2024, four inmates died at ...
The warden at a troubled Wisconsin prison will step down later this month amid lockdown conditions, an ongoing federal investigation and multiple inmate deaths. Waupun Correctional Institution ...
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has said the prisons are in “a state of modified movement.” ... Bay after visiting the Waupun prison on Nov. 9, where he met with inmates, corrections ...
Ed Gein – murderer, grave robber, incarcerated when the institution was Central State Hospital. [9] 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]
Lemons is one of four people who have died at Waupun, one of the state's five maximum-security prisons, in the last eight months. Last June, 60-year-old Dean Hoffmann died by suicide while in ...