Abusive Staff… June 23, 2020 – Cell Phones Document Abuse on the Streets. What About Those Inside? 24 Jun 202024 Jun 2020 MILWAUKEE, WIS. – June 23, 2020 – Milwaukee IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee) receives weekly testimonies from inside Wisconsin prisons documenting death and abuse triggered by guards’ actions or inactions,…
Columbia CI… January 23, 2020 – Public Suicide at Columbia 24 Jun 202024 Jun 2020 Following a public suicide by one incarcerated individual on January 15, 2020 and the death of another, a hunger strike is announced at Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI, Portage, WI) to…
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!…
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…
Abusive Staff… Freedom’s Cause # 11 – Feb. 24, 2020 14 Jun 202016 Jun 2020 MORE ON SUICIDE IN CCI IWOC received this account of the suicide of an incarcerated person, Kristopher Carlisle, at CCI, on January 14: ‘Mr. Carlisle had long been in poor…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 8 – Jan. 13, 2020 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 PAY CUT? We have received this report from an inside contact: ‘There is no specific policy. It is state- wide. It’s called an inmate work force audit. The guys in…
Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause # 7 – Dec. 23, 2019 14 Jun 202014 Jun 2020 CCI UPDATE An incarcerated person at Columbia Correctional Institution reported that recreation was restored on December 16. Recreation periods have been reduced, however, from six to three per week. In…
