Columbia CI… Freedom’s Cause #22 – August 9, 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE As of Friday, August 7, the count of positive active cases among incarcerated persons stands at 11 (up from 9 two weeks ago). 893 persons are in quarantine…
Columbia CI… October 5, 2020: DOC cannot contain spread of COVID-19 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Columbia Correctional in on lockdown. Oshkosh Correctional no longer has a place to isolate people testing positive for COVID-19. Everyone is in danger, and DOC is responsible…
Abusive Staff… June 23, 2020 – Cell Phones Document Abuse on the Streets. What About Those Inside? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
