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The coronavirus has run rampant across Wisconsin’s prisons, infecting at least 2,153 staff members at adult institutions and 10,786 inmates throughout the pandemic—more than half of the inmate population.
A man s downward spiral ended in a shocking shooting. Now, two families in Kewaskum are mourning loved ones. Bill Glauber, Sophie Carson and Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Washington County Sheriff, Martin Schulteis UP NEXT
KEWASKUM - Forest View Road cuts a straight line through quiet farmland north of West Bend before gently rising and twisting into a wooded area with several homes, some tucked inside.
These days, the fields are snow-covered, more peaceful than ever.
On Feb. 3, a mid-afternoon spasm of violence ruptured the area in ways the local folks struggle to comprehend. A 30-year-old man, out of prison for two months and struggling for years with mental health issues, careened down the road in a stolen car and rolled the vehicle. He clambered from the wreck and began to go house to house, desperate to grab another car.
A man s downward spiral ended in a shocking shooting. Now, two families in Kewaskum are mourning loved ones. Bill Glauber, Sophie Carson and Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Washington County Sheriff, Martin Schulteis UP NEXT
KEWASKUM - Forest View Road cuts a straight line through quiet farmland north of West Bend before gently rising and twisting into a wooded area with several homes, some tucked inside.
These days, the fields are snow-covered, more peaceful than ever.
On Feb. 3, a mid-afternoon spasm of violence ruptured the area in ways the local folks struggle to comprehend. A 30-year-old man, out of prison for two months and struggling for years with mental health issues, careened down the road in a stolen car and rolled the vehicle. He clambered from the wreck and began to go house to house, desperate to grab another car.
‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate
Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced
February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
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Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exceed their designed capacity.