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William Lasalle was scheduled to be released on Feb. 18, 2024, but less than a month before, he stabbed a cellmate.
William Lasalle was convicted June 25 of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and aggravated battery for respective ...
After brief stints at Dodge Correctional Institution and Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, Welte was transferred to Racine Correctional on Jan. 31, 2023. There, his phone calls soon became ...
WAUPUN | Friday will be the last day at Dodge Correctional Institution for Warden James Schwochert. He has been promoted effective Jan. 12 to be Cathy Jess’ assistant administrator at ...
They then partnered with North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City; Newton Correctional Facility, Clarinda Correctional Facility, Fort Dodge Correctional Facility, Iowa Correctional ...
Randall Hepp, former warden of Waupun Correctional Institution, pleaded no contest April 28 to a misdemeanor charge of violating the law of a state or county institution. Hepp's charge was reduced ...
Waupun's three state prisons — Waupun Correctional Institution, Dodge Correctional Institution and John C. Burke Correctional Center — provide jobs to much of the Waupun community, and have ...
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.
The other employees who were charged with misconduct or abuse of a resident in a penal facility in connection with Maier's death were correctional officers Jamall Rabb Russell, 40, and Sarah Anne ...
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says the charge stems from an investigation that started in June 2022 when an inmate at the Waupun Correctional Institution (WCI) died from a drug overdose.
FORT DODGE, Iowa — Mpox, a highly contagious viral illness formerly known as monkeypox, was recently detected at a prison in Fort Dodge, officials said Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Iowa ...