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| Logs show hundreds of altercations at youth prison |
| By thonline.com |
| Published: 09/07/2016 |
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MADISON, Wis. — Staff logs from a youth prison in northern Wisconsin show nearly 500 incidents of aggression, fighting and violence in the four months preceding a December raid by law enforcement at the troubled facility. The logs were provided to the Wisconsin State Journal by the Department of Corrections under the state’s open records law. The reports show conditions at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and the Copper Lake School for Girls just before federal and state law enforcement officials arrived to investigate allegations of abuse by staff members. The two facilities share a campus in Irma, about 30 miles north of Wausau. Altercations and confrontations resulted in 32 injuries to inmates and seven injured staff between July and December of 2015, according to the logs. “The place was getting more and more violent and out of control — and that’s what brought the place down,” said Troy Bauch, the youth prison union representative at the time of the incidents. “The kids took control of the institution.” Read More. |
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