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| Prison chaplain charged with sexual assault |
| By fdlreporter.com - Gannett Wisconsin Media |
| Published: 09/15/2011 |
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OSHKOSH WS — A prison chaplain at Oshkosh Correctional Institution is facing criminal charges stemming from a failed hostage scheme she devised as an attempt to get herself and an inmate transferred to another institution. Jamyi J. Witch, 52, of Omro, was charged in Winnebago County Circuit Court on Sept. 2 with second-degree sexual assault by correctional staff, delivery of schedule I or II narcotics and delivering illegal articles to an inmate. If convicted she faces 58 years, six months imprisonment and $160,000 in fines. Witch, whose hiring as the state's first Wiccan minister to serve as a prison chaplain in 2001 at Waupun Correctional Institution was controversial, made her first court appearance on the charges Monday and Winnebago County Court Commissioner John Kuech released her on a signature bond. The charges stem from a police investigation of an Aug. 10 incident in which Witch, a chaplain at the prison, claimed to have been taken hostage by an inmate. Oshkosh Correctional Warden Judy Smith contacted the Oshkosh Police Department on Aug. 22 to inform them that the Department of Corrections had intercepted a letter written by the inmate, who had been transferred to Green Bay Correctional Institution, to his mother. In the letter the inmate indicated Witch had come up with the plan for the Aug. 10 hostage situation. In a written statement, the inmate said he had known Witch for several years from when he was an inmate at Waupun Correctional Institution. He said after being transferred to OCI in 2009, he had seen Witch approximately six times and he recently had mentioned to her he was sick of being at Oshkosh and was considering a transfer to another institution. He said Witch suggested he come into her office, shut the door and begin throwing things around in her office. Initially he thought it was a joke, but Witch told him, "if you change your mind let me know." The inmate told Witch about being jumped by three men while he was in his cell on Aug. 7 and said he needed to get out of Oshkosh. She told him she wanted to leave Oshkosh too because of threats from other staff and she had a plan to get them both out of the facility. Read More. |
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