UNDATED (WTAQ) – A Wisconsin state senator is seeking an independent review of the Green Bay Correctional Institution.
This comes after 4 correctional officers have been attacked by inmates at the facility in Allouez over the past two months.
Green Bay Democratic Senator Dave Hansen sent a letter to Wisconsin Department of Corrections Secretary Jon Litscher, calling for the review.
“These assaults raise significant concerns about the safety of GBCI personnel amid the backdrop of funding cuts and changes made to the Department of Corrections over the past several years,” Hansen wrote in the letter.
Specifically, Hansen asks:
“That a through and independent review be done of the GBCI to identify and correct the changes in policy and the environment within the institution that may have contributed to what appears to be a dangerous trend of more brazen assaults against officers and staff.
That the GBCI and its employees all receive working radios and compatible bases and new batteries. Working radios for each and every officer every minute they are at work is essential. If funding is a problem I am happy to work with you to request a 13.10 meeting of the Joint Finance Committee to release the necessary funding.
That officers and staff be consulted with respect to the installation and or re-installation of blind spot mirrors to provide additional situational awareness and protection for the officers and staff.”
Hansen says Litscher called his office to say the DOC would look into the concerns.
