By Liz Holbrook
Jan 21, 2021 7:02 PM
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) A man convicted for multiple child pornography charges has reached the end of his prison sentence.
A release from the Stevens Point Police Department says Scott Szerlong is being released from prison on January 21st, 2021. Szerlong was convicted on 18 counts of possession of child pornography in 2017 in Portage County. He was also convicted on fraud and drug charges in 2017 as well.
Szerlong will live at 1504 Waters St. in Stevens Point and will be on strict supervision with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. He is being monitored by Sex Offender Agent Specialists and is subject to lifelong GPS monitoring. Szerlong is not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with minors, and must comply with standard sex offender rules including electronic monitoring and lifetime registry on the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry.
Rep. Evan Goyke thinks the failure of the state s plan can lead to creative reforms. By Graham Kilmer - Jan 11th, 2021 05:44 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
The State of Wisconsin’s two youth prisons are supposed to close this summer, but the state has failed to move forward, or fund, plans for new facilities, and now the deadline can’t be met, as Urban Milwaukee has reported.
The prisons Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls were the subject of a federal investigation after allegations of abuses suffered there came to light. The abuses and the federal investigation led to calls in the state to close the facilities and to reform the system.
Wisconsin DOC reverses course, releases COVID-19 inmate death tolls at individual prisons
January 11, 2021 3:23 PM Naomi Kowles
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MADISON, Wis. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has released total death tolls due to COVID-19 at the prison facilities where the deaths occurred. To date, at least 25 prisoners have died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin; previously, the DOC has refused to release information about what facilities have had inmates die because of COVID-19.
Oshkosh and Waupun Correctional Institutions lead the list with four inmate deaths each. Stanley and Redgranite Correctional Institutions have each reported three inmate deaths; facilities at Racine, Fox Lake and Dodge have each reported two deaths.