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ALLOUEZ, Wis. (WLUK) -- Area leaders are once again calling for Green Bay's prison to be shut down in the wake of Wednesday's bombshell arrests of nine employees at the Waupun Correctional ...
Under Gov. Tony Evers' prison reform proposal, Waupun Correctional Institution, the oldest prison in the state, would be converted from a maximum security facility to a medium security prison.
However, beyond closing Green Bay Correctional Institution and repurposing Waupun Correctional Institution, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ prison reform plan is hitting a wall with Republican ...
Dodge County Sheriff Dale J. Schmidt releases the findings of his agency's investigation into four deaths at Waupun Correctional Institution on June 5, 2024. Three employees are charged in ...
WAUPUN — Dodge Correctional Institution is playing host to 14 Armenian officials here to study the American prison system. “A lot of changes are taking place in Armenia,” said Nikolay ...
ALLOUEZ – Before he ever stepped foot in Green Bay Correctional Institution, Dant'e Cottingham, then 17, had already heard rumors about the prison nicknamed "Gladiator School." "It was a place ...
Between June 2023 and February 2024, four inmates died at Waupun Correctional Institution, and on June 5, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office charged nine employees in relation to two of those deaths.
Home to Dodge Correctional, John Burke Correctional and Waupun Correctional - which happens to be the oldest prison in the State of Wisconsin, built in the early 1850's, Waupun has always embraced ...