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Publication • February 19, 2016
Treatment Instead of Prisons A Roadmap for Sentencing and Correctional Policy Reform in Wisconsin, Justice Strategies, 2006 Treatment Instead of Prisons A Roadmap for Sentencing and Correctional Policy Reform in Wisconsin January 2006 Commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance About Justice Strategies Justice Strategies is an organization founded by veteran …
Brief • February 19, 2016
Green v. City of Milwaukee - Newport, WI, Order, unwarranted search, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN DAVIN GREEN, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 15-CV-786 JONATHON NEWPORT and CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Defendants. DECISION AND ORDER On June 29, 2015, Davin Green filed a complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. …
Publication • February 19, 2016
Corrections Costs, Department of Corrections, WI Legislative Audit Bureau Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau 97-18 Corrections Costs, Department of Corrections Summary As prison populations have increased, the State’s corrections system has required an increasing proportion of state expenditures. Between fiscal years (FYs) 1985-86 and 1995-96, when total general purpose revenue (GPR) …
Publication • February 15, 2016
Mason Detention Facility Contract With WI. CCA 2001 WI Legislative Fiscal Bureau Report (January 2001) In March, 1998, Corrections began contracting with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) for prison beds at two privately-administered facilities in Whiteville, Tennessee. In June, 1998, CCA's facility in Sayre, Oklahoma, was also included in …
Brief • February 10, 2016
Flynn et al v. Walker et al, WI, Joint MTD, inadquate health care disabled inmates, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN KRISTINE FLYNN, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 06-CV-537- RTR SCOTT WALKER, et al., Defendants. …
Brief • February 5, 2016
Thompson v. Holm, WI, Settlement, Ramadan Fasting, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN MICHAEL L. THOMPSON, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 13..cv.. 00930-nj WILLIAM HOLM, MATTHEW LARSON, RANDALL LASHOCK, BRUCE BLEICH, and JOHN DOE, Defendants. RELEASE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Tins Release and Settlement Agreement …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Wisconsin DOC Pays Former Prisoner for Miscalculating Sentence by Gary Hunter On April 4, 2014, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) was ordered to pay $7,600 to former prisoner Robin N. Gavinski for holding him too long in prison. Gavinski was serving three sentences that were supposed to run concurrently; …
Article • January 7, 2016
Seventh Circuit: Police Officer Who Shot Man Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity by On May 27, 2015, the Seventh Circuit court of appeals upheld a federal court's denial of a motion for summary judgement based on qualified immunity filed by a police officer who shot a man in an alleged …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Seventh Circuit Rules Wisconsin Prisoner’s Religious Rights Must be Honored by Derek Gilna Seventh Circuit Rules Wisconsin Prisoner’s Religious Rights Must be Honored by Derek Gilna David A. Schlemm, a Navajo tribe member confined in a Wisconsin state prison, sought to exercise his right to practice certain religious rituals required …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Study Finds Private Prisons Keep Prisoners Longer, Without Reducing Future Crime by Peter Kerwin Study Finds Private Prisons Keep Prisoners Longer, Without Reducing Future Crime by Peter Kerwin A new study finds that prisoners in private prisons are likely to serve as many as two to three more months behind bars …
Article • October 19, 2015
$40,000 for DUI Suspect over Destroyed Exculpatory Video by $40,000 for DUI Suspect over Destroyed Exculpatory Video A jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin decided, in December 2009, in favor of plaintiff Troy Scheffler in the amount of $40,000 for the county willfully …
Article • October 15, 2015
Filed under: Prisoner-Staff Assault
$300,000 Award to Wisconsin Prison Employee Raped by Prisoner by $300,000 Award to Wisconsin Prison Employee Raped by Prisoner A Wisconsin federal jury awarded $300,000 to a female prison-employee who was raped by a prisoner. At the time of the rape, the woman was a payroll and benefits specialist at …
Article • October 15, 2015
No Eighth Amendment Violation in Cellmate Attack by No Eighth Amendment Violation in Cellmate Attack The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed a lawsuit filed by an inmate who suffered injuries after claiming that prison staff failed to heed his warnings that his cellmate was about …
Article • October 6, 2015
$506,000 Awarded to Wisconsin Man for Officers’ Unlawful Stop and Arrest by $506,000 Awarded to Wisconsin Man for Officers’ Unlawful Stop and Arrest A federal jury has awarded a man $506,000 after finding two Wisconsin police officers liable of an illegal stop and arrest. Leo Hardy was instructed by officers …
Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Sex Assault Charges against Wiccan Ex-Prison Chaplain Dismissed by Joe Watson Sex Assault Charges against Wiccan Ex-Prison Chaplain Dismissed by Joe Watson A Wiccan former prison chaplain at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution in Wisconsin pledged to sue the Wisconsin Department of Corrections after she was cleared of criminal charges in …
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: News in Brief
News In Brief by Alabama: On April 9, 2013, Kenneth Wayne Patton was arrested on a domestic violence charge. When he arrived at the Etowah County Jail, he informed guards that he used to be employed at the St. Clair Correctional Facility and should be put in protective custody. Despite …
Article • September 9, 2015
Wisconsin Jail’s 2013 Prisoner Fee Revenue Falls $130,000 by Mark Wilson Wisconsin Jail’s 2013 Prisoner Fee Revenue Falls $130,000          by Mark Wilson A litigation-compelled policy change has cut a Wisconsin County’s booking and pay-to- stay fees by $130,000. However, county officials are quickly recouping the revenue from other detainees. A …
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Seventh Circuit Upholds Wisconsin Sex Offender Registration Fee, Names John Doe Plaintiffs by Derek Gilna Seventh Circuit Upholds Wisconsin Sex Offender Registration Fee, Names John Doe Plaintiffs by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court’s ruling that found Wisconsin’s statute for sex offender registration, …
Seventh Circuit: New Trial for Wrong Legal Standard in Jail Death Case by Mark Wilson Seventh Circuit: New Trial for Wrong Legal Standard in Jail Death Case by Mark Wilson In an amended decision on August 14, 2014, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held a district court had abused …
Brown v. Dept Corrections, WI, Complaint, 2015 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN FELICIA BROWN Plaintiff, v. Case No. 2:15-cv-843 WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, a state governmental agency; SUSAN NYGREN, individually and in her official capacity as manager of the Health Service Unit of the Wisconsin Department of …
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