The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison
Tag: Prisons
Posted inFact briefs
Did most federal prison inmates in Wisconsin and the U.S. enter the country illegally?
No. As of Jan. 25, 59% of Oxford inmates, and 85% of federal inmates nationally, were U.S. citizens.
Posted inJustice & Safety
One child, $463,000 per year: Ballooning costs of troubled Lincoln Hills youth prison
A budget request would nearly double incarceration costs in Wisconsin’s juvenile justice system. Many say the funds would be better used to prevent crime.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Virtual reality technology connects people who are incarcerated to a new type of job training
Transfr, a New York company, seeks to put virtual reality technology in the hands of people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin, hoping they can overcome barriers to employment once released.
Posted inJustice & Safety
What does marriage look like while incarcerated?
As Marshall Jones, who grew up on Milwaukee’s North Side, serves two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, the way he and his wife build their lives today centers around faith in God and family.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Wisconsin prisons restrict books and mail to keep drugs out, but some staff still bring drugs in
Critics say the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is limiting prisoner access to information while wider entry points for drugs remain open.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Autopsy determines man killed at Green Bay Correctional Institution was strangled
An inmate found dead at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in northeastern Wisconsin was strangled, investigators said.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Short on fixes for prison problems, Wisconsin weighs independent oversight
Wisconsin prisoner rights advocates are calling for the creation of an independent ombudsman to investigate concerns inside prisons and to study solutions.
Posted inJustice & Safety
As Wisconsin legislators tinker with prison reform, a Milwaukee man continues doing ‘dead time’
Gawaine Edwards says he’s stuck in prison doing “dead time.” He can’t be released for another 12 years because he committed his crime after the enactment of Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing law.
Posted inJustice & Safety
Judge rejects GOP call to give Wisconsin youth prison counselors more freedom to punish inmates
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 during a fight at the facility this summer.
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Some youths at Wisconsin’s juvenile prison complain of isolation. The Department of Corrections sees progress.
Those involved in improving conditions at Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls acknowledge progress in treatment of youths there. But some youths are alleging they are being isolated for prolonged periods.
Posted inForward, Justice & Safety
DataWatch: Wisconsin incarcerates more people than its prisons were designed to hold
More than 5,000 people are living outside of the designated normal population for the prison system. Overcrowding in prisons can have serious impacts on staff and prisoners.