Mental Health WIDOC style the basics

Here is a primer on solitary in WI, where many if not most the mentally ill in our state wind up. There is no treatment for the mentally ill in our maximum security prisoners and very little effective in mediums. Most end up in solitary for rule  infraction and because they keep acting out, they get more time in solitary and then are release to the streets. Many many are returned quickly because the WIDOC can reincarcerate for rule violations/ non felonies. It is an exquisitely crafted system for super money hungry sadists but one that is disastrous for the public which foots the bill. The final heart break for activists and families and friends alike are the suicides while in prison and especially after release. 

 

This report was done a year before the pandemic- conditions have worsened and I will put in new comments within, telling of those who have since died or, thankfully, are making it:

   TORTURE IN WISCONSIN PRISONS:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1juVBlFcmH0OcYpu53-XbEfckr45DKNx5/view?usp=drive_link

   Mental health diagnoses and seriousness codes change arbitrarily:link

The best way to demonstrate what is happening is through the stories of the prisoners themselves. 

 in honor of dear friends- may we make it better:

Timothy Crowley R.I.P. Timothy was very sweet : he was deaf and gong blind with a genetic disease and used to joke that he "came to prison on multiple misdemeanors , and here decades later" . FFUP work to get him braille training and also assistance in daily living because of his deafness.  I wrote a report on deafness which was dismissed; the braille came  but no help. He finally got out and even had a girl friend- we were delighted. Sho left him , that is all we know- 

Ramiah Whiteside was a shock to many of us- I had met him in the supermax and visitiedd him many times there- he was a wise man with few words- all looked up to him. He ws a memeber to =of our group for awhile, again, just chiming in when we had special things to share. his death was otu of the blue- none of us knew he was hurting. 

ONGOING ADVOCACY

Terrance Grissom:  has

                 advocacy: trying to get him to his mother in Colorado , which has a prison system the model  for the world

Damien Green: begging for treatment before release

        details of ongoing struggle: 

Louis Keys Release after years of solitary to homeless ness. now in Hennepin county Jail needing Bail

Abdifatah Ahmed

Deron Love

Matthew Stechauner