COVID-19

• Freedom’s Cause # 21 – July 26, 2020 July 26, 2020 HEAT WAVE IN OSCI Milwaukee IWOC organized a phone zap on Wednesday, July 22, after multiple reports of intolerable ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 20 – July 12, 2020 July 12, 2020 SUCCESSFUL PHONE ZAP In a previous issue of Freedom’s Cause, we reported that incarcerated litigators at Columbia CI had ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 19 – June 21, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (June 19), the DOC reports that there are 6 active cases (vs. 195  two weeks ago) ...
• Fox Lake Reporter #3 Issue 3  July 2020 This issue will cover submissions we had lately.   If you have something to add to the ...
• Fox Lake Reporter #2 The Fox Lake Reporter Issue 2 Hello all FOX LAKE IWOC contacts! This is our second Issue of the Fox Lake Reporter!. This ...
• Fox Lake Reporter #1 June 2020 Hello all FOX LAKE IWOC contacts! This is our First Issue of the Fox Lake Reporter!. This issue will cover ...
• June 4, 2020 – “Precautionary” Suspension of Administrative Rules Used to Retaliate Against Prisoners FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMILWAUKEE, WIS. – June 4, 2020 – On 5/31, Sunday, at Waupun Correctional Institution (WCI) 75 incarcerated people ...
• May 26, 2020 – Nurse at Fox Lake Tests Positive for COVID-19 A physical therapist nurse on staff at Fox Lake Correctional Institution (FLCI) has tested positive for COVID-19. At 8 am ...
• March 19, 2020 – Compassionate Release due to COVID-19 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Supporting ACLU, WISDOM, and other groups in their calls for effecting “compassionate release,” sending home all people expecting ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 17 – May 24, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (May 22), the DOC reports that there are 36 active positive cases (vs. 7 two weeks ...

Columbia Correctional Institution

• Freedom’s Cause # 15 – Apr. 26, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (4/24), WI DOC reports that 14 incarcerated people have tested positive for the corona virus (8 at OSCI, 4 at MSDF, and 2 at CCI). This is out of a total ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 14 – Apr. 12, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday afternoon (April 10), nine prison employees and five inmates in Wisconsin have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Corrections Department. Of the approximately 23,000 people incarcerated in the state, just ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 13 – Mar. 22, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES -Eighteen prisoners were quarantined and 11 prison medical workers been sent home after a doctor at Waupun Correctional Institution was infected with coronavirus. Warden Brian Foster was not specific about who had been infected, ...
• CO tests positive at CCI – 3/24/2020 On March 21st a correctional officer here at CCI was diagnosed as having covid-19. They will not release the name of this officer to the inmate population, and three separate officers have told me that ...
• Many inmates in the barracks at CCI – 3/23/2020 On March 21, 2020, inmates in CCI’S barracks (minimum custody) received a communicable disease notice, issued by the health services manager, Mrs. Lucinda Buchanan, indicating that an individual at CCI has been diagnosed as potentially ...
• As of today I have been on quarantine for three days – 3/23/2020 As of today I have been on quarantine for three days. On Monday, March 30th, my celly demanded to be seen because he had concerns about having the Coronavirus. Not only was he showing symptoms ...
• I wanted to provide my personal experience to validate my concerns – 3/23/2020 I am sending you this e-mail to inform you about the conditions in Columbia Correctional Institution’s Barracks.  I have been incarcerated since August 15, 2005. I have spent much of my incarceration at New Lisbon Correctional ...
• We aren’t cleaning everyday or allowed to sanitize our living quarters – 3/23/2020  Awaken by my Clear Tunes,13inch t.v.to the words of covid19 claims another life in the Milwaukee area. My heart dropped because I have love ones who resides there. Still trying to focus on what I ...
• The only staff here at CCI wearing masks are the HSU workers – 3/21/2020 As of today a memo was giving to inmates here at CCI. Stating that a staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. Now I know for a fact that the person has been in contact ...
• A “communicable disease notice” was passed out to us yesterday evening – 3/21/2020 In response to an individual here at CCI being diagnosed as potentially having covid-19 a strict lockdown status has been imposed. Meals are eaten in the cell, meds are delivered to the cell, and we ...

Oshkosh Correctional Institution

• Freedom’s Cause # 21 – July 26, 2020 July 26, 2020 HEAT WAVE IN OSCI Milwaukee IWOC organized a phone zap on Wednesday, July 22, after multiple reports of intolerable conditions in Oshkosh CI during a recent heat wave. The prison remains on lockdown, which ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 17 – May 24, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (May 22), the DOC reports that there are 36 active positive cases (vs. 7 two weeks ago) and 18 recovered positive cases among ‘persons in their care’. 1,283 persons have been ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 15 – Apr. 26, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (4/24), WI DOC reports that 14 incarcerated people have tested positive for the corona virus (8 at OSCI, 4 at MSDF, and 2 at CCI). This is out of a total ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 14 – Apr. 12, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday afternoon (April 10), nine prison employees and five inmates in Wisconsin have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Corrections Department. Of the approximately 23,000 people incarcerated in the state, just ...
• Soiled covid -19 linens will come here – 3/23/2020 Covid-19 in OSCI? Not yet. But I did see where CCI and Waupun have it. Plus I know UW-Oshkosh has been asked to house covid-19 patients. Well all of those institutions have one thing in common… ...

Waupun Correctional Institution

• Freedom’s Cause # 17 – May 24, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (May 22), the DOC reports that there are 36 active positive cases (vs. 7 two weeks ago) and 18 recovered positive cases among ‘persons in their care’. 1,283 persons have been ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 15 – Apr. 26, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (4/24), WI DOC reports that 14 incarcerated people have tested positive for the corona virus (8 at OSCI, 4 at MSDF, and 2 at CCI). This is out of a total ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 13 – Mar. 22, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES -Eighteen prisoners were quarantined and 11 prison medical workers been sent home after a doctor at Waupun Correctional Institution was infected with coronavirus. Warden Brian Foster was not specific about who had been infected, ...
• Freedom’s Cause # 12 – Mar. 9, 2020 CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS A contact in GBCI sent us this: ‘Staff in this institution and all institutions in the DOC are especially inconsiderate of us inmates. How? They repeatedly do not take sick days when they are ...
• Waupun Correctional Institution has done little to nothing – 3/19/2020 Waupun Correctional Institution has done little to nothing to stop the spread of the coronavirus! Today (3/19/20) during showers there was an abundant amount of correctional officer’s (c/o’s) conducting showers, I counted at least 20. ...