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| State Department of Corrections files youth prison plans |
| By lacrossetribune.com- Shelley K. Mesch |
| Published: 07/10/2017 |
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Complying with a federal judge's order, the state Department of Corrections filed its plan Friday to reduce the use of pepper spray, restraints and solitary confinements for teen inmates. U.S. District Judge James Peterson gave the DOC two weeks to work with the attorneys representing the current and former inmates at Wisconsin's youth prison suing the department and create the plan. In his ruling June 23, Peterson said the DOC's practices of routinely using pepper spray, shackles and solitary confinement likely violate the inmates' constitutional rights and that prison administers demonstrated "callous indifference" to the harm inflicted on the inmates because of these practices. Read More. |
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