Excerpt from 4/23/18 letter by a prisoner at Kettle Moraine Correctional:
“In most institutions prisoners are allowed to wash their personal clothes for free, however at Kettle Moraine they still require the prisoners to pay $1.55 for washes, even though all the washer and dryers have long been paid for by the prisoners. Kettle Moraine is making thousands of dollars a year from this, but where is this money going to?…For decades prisoners have been paying $7.50 co-pay each time that they needed to see a medical physician, dentist or an eye examiner…With the cuts in pay prisoners receive from $4 up to $20 dollars every two weeks, depending on the institution pay range.” [Al Holman, 4/23/18]
Conditions in the Wisconsin prison system need to change.