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Wisconsin Transfers Spark Protest
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 17
On Sunday June 28, 1998, prisoners at the Fox Lake Correctional Institution staged a protest against the scheduled transfer of 160 Wisconsin prisoners to a private prison in Oklahoma.
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison Rebellion,
Overcrowding.
Location:
Wisconsin.
According to eye-witnesses, about 155 prisoners refused orders to return to their cells from a recreation area. Emergency response [goon] units ...
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