COVID-19… Freedom’s Cause # 21 – July 26, 2020 10 Aug 202010 Aug 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…
COVID-19… Freedom’s Cause # 20 – July 12, 2020 10 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 July 12, 2020 SUCCESSFUL PHONE ZAP In a previous issue of Freedom’s Cause, we reported that incarcerated litigators at Columbia CI had legal documents seized and were subjected to other…
COVID-19… Freedom’s Cause # 19 – June 21, 2020 10 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (June 19), the DOC reports that there are 6 active cases (vs. 195 two weeks ago) and 262 recovered or released cases among ‘persons in…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 18 – June 7, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 PHONE ZAP FOR WCI On June 1, Milwaukee IWOC issued the following press release: ‘On Sunday (5/31), at Waupun Correctional Institution (WCI), 75 incarcerated people were chanting ‘Black lives matter!…
COVID-19… Freedom’s Cause # 17 – May 24, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 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…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 16 – May 10, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATES As of Friday (May 8), the DOC reports that there are 7 active positive cases and 13 recovered positive cases among prisoners in Wisconsin. 159 persons have been…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 15 – Apr. 26, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 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).…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 14 – Apr. 12, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 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…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 13 – Mar. 22, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 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…
COVID-19… Freedom’s Cause # 12 – Mar. 9, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 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…
