RACINE — A 28-year-old Racine man faces a 60-year prison term after he was charged earlier this week with felony sexual assault of his girlfriend. In addition to the felony sexual assault charge, Reginald Turner is charged with felony counts of false imprisonment, strangulation and suffocation, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon as […]
Tag: Wisconsin Department of Corrections
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Physical abuse of elderly charges for 18-year-old could mean almost 2 decades in prison
RACINE — An 18-year-old Racine woman remains in custody in the Racine County Jail on a $25,000 cash bond after she was charged last week with two felony counts for the alleged physical abuse of her 70-year-old mother. Ashley A. Kaschel is charged with felony counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety with the use of […]
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Caledonia Village board OKs secure youth facility
CALEDONIA – Despite opposition from village residents, the Caledonia Village Board voted 5 to 2 Monday night to allow Racine County to build and operate a $42.5 million secure youth facility. The county plans to build a 70,000 square-foot secure residential care center facility just south of Three Mile Road at the airport’s northeast corner […]
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Sex Offender To Be Placed In Burlington Area Dec. 14
BURLINGTON – Daniel R. Williams, 52, one of two registered sex offenders who were to be placed at a rental property near Caledonia earlier this year, is now planned to be placed at a residence in the Town of Burlington next week. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office released a sex offender notification bulletin, dated Dec. […]
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133 Sex Offender Compliance Checks Made this Halloween
The Racine County Sheriff’s Office and state Division of Community Corrections completed 133 supervised compliance checks on registered sex offenders throughout the county during Halloween trick-or-treat hours on Sunday. The sex offenders, who are under the supervision of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC), each signed an agreement requiring them to remain indoors, at home […]
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Gretchen Schuldt: DOC should be more open about COVID-19
In late October, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections finally disclosed the number of COVID-19 deaths among people incarcerated in state prisons. That’s good news. But it’s troubling that this disclosure, which revealed that at least five state inmates have died, came only after months of delaying, obfuscating, and covering up. And the DOC is still […]
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State suspends terminating Medicaid benefits for inmates
MADISON – Changes in Medicaid guidelines affecting inmates will take effect later this month, state officials announced Friday in a press release. Starting Oct. 24, incarcerated Medicaid members will have their health care benefits suspended and re-evaluated before they are released from jail or prison. Under the current policy, Medicaid members have their coverage terminated […]
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The Wisconsin corrections system is at a tipping point, so now what?
A debate has ensued for months in the state Legislature over who goes to prison and how to pay for it. Republican state lawmakers lobbied for crime bill AB 805, which would allow more people to be placed back into incarceration for breaking the rules of their supervision. Democrats are pushing for bill AB 830 […]
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Rules of supervision
When the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) carries out a court-ordered prison sentence, people are not just free to go to do as they please after being released from prison or being put on probation. Following that release from prison, the second component of their sentence commences is called extended supervision. Also if a judge […]
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Revoked: The process unpacked
Sponsored column If you are one of the more than 66,000 individuals being supervised by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, you are all too familiar with what it means to have “conditional liberty” and to know that one misstep could mean weeks, months or years of your life spent in a jail or prison. The […]
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Homeless offenders create gaps in Wisconsin’s GPS monitoring system
By Riley Vetterkind Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Michael walked out of the Oshkosh Correctional Institution in April 2017 at age 60 with $140 to his name, a record as a sex offender and a GPS monitoring bracelet strapped to his ankle. Michael, who requested that only his middle name be used to avoid public […]
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Police: Sex Offender Charged with Trying to Have Sex with Teen
Racine police say a 36-year-old registered sex offender is back behind bars after he went to a 15-year-old girl’s house to have sex with her. David Greeno, of Racine, was charged Friday in Racine County Circuit Court with a single felony count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime. If convicted, he […]
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Inmate In Custody After Wandering Away From Work Site
UPDATE: Andrew Leland was apprehended and is in the custody of the Department of Corrections. Original story: Law enforcement officials from the Racine County Sheriff’s Department are searching for an inmate that walked away from his work release job Monday afternoon from the Sturtevant Transitional Facility, 9351 Rayne Rd. Andrew Leland, 24, is reported to have […]
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Battle of the Badges: Fight for Autism is Sept. 26
Officers and firefighters from across Racine and Kenosha counties will once again pull on gloves and duke it out to raise money for autism services through Easter Seals. The 2015 Battle of the Badges starts at 3 p.m. September 26 at Case High School, 7345 Washington Avenue. There will be 12 bouts total starting at 5 […]
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Sex Offender Notification Meeting Monday
Residents are invited to attend a sex offender notification meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the 16th Street COP House. Timothy D. Smith, 33, will be released sometime before May 27 and will live in a home at 1400 block Washington Avenue. He was convicted in 1996 of aggravated sexual assault in Texas, and was […]