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The modern Wisconsin Department of Corrections was created by a chapter of the executive budget of 1989 (1989 Wisc. Act 31) and began operating January 1, 1990. [7] In June 2008, over 120 minimum-security supervised inmate workers were used to assist in filling sandbags and flood cleanup during the flooding.
Seventeen bills aimed at addressing the conditions inside Wisconsin's prisons were introduced last year, spearheaded by Rep. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, and Clancy, but none came to fruition.
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)
In 2006, an advisory referendum showed 55.5% of Wisconsin voters were in favor of reinstating capital punishment. The state legislature did not adopt any statute to implement the popular vote. [4] A 2013 poll by Marquette Law School showed that 46.6% of Wisconsin voters supported reinstating capital punishment, while 50.5% opposed. [5]
The Bureau's mission reflected a strong faith in impersonal legalism, according to historian Edward L. Ayers, and its agents were to act as guarantors of blacks' legal equality. [285] The Bureau maintained courts in the South from 1865 to 1868 to adjudicate minor civil and criminal cases involving freed slaves. [285]
Wisconsin must reduce prison to ease chronic overcrowding Finally, the state must reduce the overall prison population. Our prisons, designed to hold approximately 17,600 persons, currently exceed ...
A federal judge has rejected Republican legislators' calls to give counselors at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison more leeway in controlling and punishing inmates after a counselor was killed ...
Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Wisconsin" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.