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| Stanley Prison investigation expands |
| By chippewa.com |
| Published: 02/18/2010 |
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The investigation into falsified documents leading to the release of prisoners from the Stanley Correctional Institution has led all the way to Louisiana, and involves a third prisoner, according to Chippewa County District Attorney Jon Theisen. While Theisen got involved in the case last week, it remains to be seen whether he will ever actually prosecute a case connected with the escape. The major part of any crime may have been committed elsewhere, he said. Theisen, who by virtue of his position is the chief law enforcement official in the county, was not contacted by the Department of Corrections on the escape case. He contacted them. “Friday morning I called them and said I wanted to know what was going on,” he said. Theisen and assistant Roy Gay then met that same day with Warden Jeff Pugh, Deputy Warden Tim Haines and Stanley Chief of Police Roy Frederickson. “I was asking for a status report and it was quickly agreed among the group that we would be asking for assistance with the Department of Criminal Investigation,” Theisen said. The DCI is part of the state Department of Justice, headed by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. “It just goes beyond the resources of Chief Frederickson, and, I think he would agree, his experience,” Theisen said. That’s because the incident involved the apparent falsification of documents outside of the Stanley area and the mailing of them to the prison. The documents were amended sentencing orders, documents that officially detail the conviction of crimes and the sentences imposed for each. Such documents are routinely generated in criminal cases. It is not unusual for the prison to receive documents making amendments to what might have originally been indicated. Amendments are made for a variety of reasons, including honest clerical errors, Theisen explained. He was told the prison may get on average one such amendment document a week. False documents affecting the sentences of three prisoners have been identified. The most serious one appears to be the case of a Milwaukee man who had the length of his incarceration time reduced by a falsified document. He was therefore released early and put on a bus from Eau Claire to Milwaukee, where he reported immediately to his supervision agent. A second false document reduced another prisoner’s post-incarceration supervision time. That man was to have served seven years of incarceration followed by 13 years of supervision. The document reduced the supervision to one year. That change itself was a red flag and was noticed, Theisen said. Under the sentencing system, the extended supervision time must be at least 25 percent of the total sentence. Theisen revealed that a third attempt at an early release failed. A document was received that amended a prisoner’s sentence from 12 years incarceration and 12 years of supervision to five of incarceration and five of supervision. The new sentence would have made that prisoner eligible for release on Feb. 2, but by then authorities were on to the scheme and the prisoner was sent to segregation, Theisen said. But also involved in one of these cases was a possible false order quashing (that is, nullifying) a detention order from the state of Louisiana, Theisen said. When a prisoner serving time in one state has pending charges or sentence in another state, that state will have a detention order in place that would kick in when the prisoner’s release date came up. Theisen said Louisiana officials have been contacted about the order. Theisen said that these documents were not carelessly put together. They appear to be exact duplications of actual documents and appear to have valid file stamps from clerks of court offices, and arrived at the prison in envelopes marked as coming from the clerks’ offices in Milwaukee and Dane counties. Read More. |
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