By Scott Bauer, Associated Press
Apr 20, 2021 12:54 PM
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin’s juvenile prisons made a “vast improvement” in meeting court-ordered changes and in overall atmosphere since December, the latest report released Tuesday from a monitor found.
The positive report from court-ordered monitor Teresa Abreau was based on a March visit to the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls. It came after a report on her December visit detailed worsening conditions.
There continues to be concern regarding programming, use of force, restraints, and other issues, the monitor said, but noted: “There has been vast improvement in many areas of the consent decree and overall atmosphere from the last site visit.”
By Liz Holbrook
Apr 16, 2021 3:24 PM
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) A sex offender convicted in 2015 will be moving in Marathon County under close supervision.
Joshua Neitzke, 35, was released into Marathon County at the end of 2020. Neitzke was convicted in January of 2015 on charges of 3rd-degree sexual assault and child enticement. He will be under supervision administered by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections until January 1st of 2024.
Neitzke is moving from transitional housing near the Marathon County Courthouse to an apartment in the 500 block of N 6th Street in Wausau. He remains subject to GPS tracking by the Department of Corrections. Neitzke’ss ongoing address and status can be accessed through the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry.
EMILY HAMER
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has vaccinated 17% of state prisoners against COVID-19, but is still lagging behind the statewide vaccination rate of 37.6% of residents who have received a dose â despite all inmates having been eligible since March 1.
Although the vaccines seem to be running behind, the number of COVID-19 cases in the prison system has plummeted. On Tuesday, the active case count among prisoners was just six â the lowest it has been since June 19. Over the course of the pandemic, nearly 11,000 Wisconsin prisoners have been infected and 26 have died.
Also as of Tuesday, 3,293 state prisoners had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to DOC vaccine data that is now updated weekly.
Roger Bruesewitz, who died in 2019 at 82, spent much of his early life in and out of jail after robbing businesses, running “a dirty bookstore” and dealing with a heroin addiction.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court room at the state Capitol building. (Photo via Royalbroil/Wikipedia)
MADISON, Wis. (CN) The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case hinging on how much reach police have when they want to search data extracted from a cellphone in the course of investigating a crime separate from the incident that led to the data’s extraction in the first place.
In June 2016, George Burch was questioned by officers with the Green Bay Police Department in connection with a hit-and-run incident, at which point an officer asked to see some text messages on Burch’s phone before asking if he could take the phone, have the information on it downloaded and then return it.