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COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons five times higher than state Follow Us Question of the Day Ramiah Whiteside of Milwaukee holds a sign during a protest outside of the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on Nov. 24, 2020. Event organizers sought to draw attention to the thousands of inmates and staff who have contracted . more > By VANESSA SWALES of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - Saturday, February 20, 2021 MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Calvin Johnson spent his final weeks at Prairie du Chien Correctional Institution wracked in pandemic anxiety, a former cellmate recalled. He closely tracked COVID-19’s spread in and outside of the medium-security state prison - eyeing infection counts in surrounding Crawford County and across Wisconsin. ....
COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons 5 times higher than state By: Associated Press February 20, 2021 9:32 am Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff on June 18 as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exceed their designed capacity. (Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch via AP) By VANESSA SWALES Wisconsin Watch MADISON, Wis. (AP) Calvin Johnson spent his final weeks at Prairie du Chien Correctional Institution wracked in pandemic anxiety, a former cellmate recalled. He closely tracked COVID-19’s spread in and outside of the medium-security state prison eyeing infection counts in surrounding Crawford County and across Wisconsin. ....
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The coronavirus has run rampant across Wisconsin’s prisons, infecting at least 2,153 staff members at adult institutions and 10,786 inmates throughout the pandemic—more than half of the inmate population. ....
‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Posted: Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exceed their designed capacity. ....