About two segregation units
The purpose of this correspondence is to bring to your readers’ attention some much overlooked facts worthy of noting.
On several different occasions it has been said (written) in PAC’s newsletters, that while some wardens had called for the construction of several 200 cell bed segregation units, instead, we got WSPF.
The fact of the matter is, that in addition to Supermax (WSPF), we also got two segregation units. One seg. unit - with 185 cell beds - was built in Waupun Correctional. Institution (WCI) and opened in February 1998 (almost two years before WSPF was opened). And a 200 cell bed (or thereabouts) seg. unit was built at the Green Bay Correctional Institution (GBCI), and opened in January 1999 (almost one year before WSPF opened).
In fact, all the WSPF guards were trained in the seg. units at WCI, GBCI, CCI, and JCI.
Many, if not all, of the conditions at the WCI and GBCI mirror those very same conditions at the WSPF. Which conditions - harsh conditions - the federal court found to violate the 8th amendment, etc.
The isolating features of the architectural design are the same at WSPF, WCI and GBCI. Such as the “boxcar door” has a solid metal construction and slides on tracts. Prisoners are essentially encased in metal and concrete 24 hours per day.
Visitation at all three prisons are via video monitors; 24/7 illumination. While WCI has indoor recreation (in six dog cages, literally), GBCI has outdoor recreation. While GBCI cells have showers in each cell - like that in WSPF - WCI have three showers on each range (tier) where prisoners are escorted to showers twice per week. WCI cells have no mirrors, while WSPF and GBCI cells do have mirrors.
While WSPF cell door’s shutters were kept closed at all times to prevent prisoners from seeing one another. WCI and GBCI have a wall which runs from one end of the range, down the middle of each tier, to the other end, to prevent prisoners from seeing one another.
The same tools of punishment are utilized at all three segregation units. Such as food as punishment, back at the cell (bus) knee on the ground with your hands on the wall with your back to the door.
Both GBCI and WCI cells have frosted windows so that you cannot see outside. Both WCI and GBCI do not allow prisoners to possess personal property such as books, magazines newspapers. While WSPF does allow prisoners to possess those materials. Therefore, in some respects conditions at WCI and GBCI are worse than those at WSPF. As part of their level program 1 - 3, GBCI does not permit prisoners to possess their tv or radio in any level. While WCI as part of their step 1 - 3 program, does allow prisoners to possess their tv’s and/or radios once they reach step 3, like WSPF. Like at WSPF, WCI and GBCI, clinicians visit prisoners at the door front where there is no confidentiality.
The PAC readers and or the public in general must be made aware, that many of the prisoners removed from WSPF (including myself) because of the effects from the harsh conditions are barred from being sent to WSPF, find themselves subjected to those very harsh conditions (and in some respects worse conditions) of torture! I simply don’t get it?!
I surmise the reason the DOC can and does torture us in the segregation units in WCI and GBCI, is because those two prisons are not under any court order, while WSPF is. But doesn’t it boggle the mind, that we can be tortured in WCI seg. units and GBCI seg. units, but not in the WSPF seg. prison.
I believe Ed Garvey and the other attorneys, owe us (the original 7 or 8 of us removed from WSPF under a preliminary injunction court order) a legal responsibility to find out where we are today? For we have been victimized a second time and or in retaliation for having been removed from WSPF.
Justice delayed, is justice denied!
Sincerely,
Jerry Saenz
p.s.
Also worthy of note. Like at WSPF (in the beginning anyway, for I believe in this area things have improved), both WCI seg. and GBCI seg., are like a freezer during the winter and like an incinerator during the summer.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Always in the struggle.
Jerry
On several different occasions it has been said (written) in PAC’s newsletters, that while some wardens had called for the construction of several 200 cell bed segregation units, instead, we got WSPF.
The fact of the matter is, that in addition to Supermax (WSPF), we also got two segregation units. One seg. unit - with 185 cell beds - was built in Waupun Correctional. Institution (WCI) and opened in February 1998 (almost two years before WSPF was opened). And a 200 cell bed (or thereabouts) seg. unit was built at the Green Bay Correctional Institution (GBCI), and opened in January 1999 (almost one year before WSPF opened).
In fact, all the WSPF guards were trained in the seg. units at WCI, GBCI, CCI, and JCI.
Many, if not all, of the conditions at the WCI and GBCI mirror those very same conditions at the WSPF. Which conditions - harsh conditions - the federal court found to violate the 8th amendment, etc.
The isolating features of the architectural design are the same at WSPF, WCI and GBCI. Such as the “boxcar door” has a solid metal construction and slides on tracts. Prisoners are essentially encased in metal and concrete 24 hours per day.
Visitation at all three prisons are via video monitors; 24/7 illumination. While WCI has indoor recreation (in six dog cages, literally), GBCI has outdoor recreation. While GBCI cells have showers in each cell - like that in WSPF - WCI have three showers on each range (tier) where prisoners are escorted to showers twice per week. WCI cells have no mirrors, while WSPF and GBCI cells do have mirrors.
While WSPF cell door’s shutters were kept closed at all times to prevent prisoners from seeing one another. WCI and GBCI have a wall which runs from one end of the range, down the middle of each tier, to the other end, to prevent prisoners from seeing one another.
The same tools of punishment are utilized at all three segregation units. Such as food as punishment, back at the cell (bus) knee on the ground with your hands on the wall with your back to the door.
Both GBCI and WCI cells have frosted windows so that you cannot see outside. Both WCI and GBCI do not allow prisoners to possess personal property such as books, magazines newspapers. While WSPF does allow prisoners to possess those materials. Therefore, in some respects conditions at WCI and GBCI are worse than those at WSPF. As part of their level program 1 - 3, GBCI does not permit prisoners to possess their tv or radio in any level. While WCI as part of their step 1 - 3 program, does allow prisoners to possess their tv’s and/or radios once they reach step 3, like WSPF. Like at WSPF, WCI and GBCI, clinicians visit prisoners at the door front where there is no confidentiality.
The PAC readers and or the public in general must be made aware, that many of the prisoners removed from WSPF (including myself) because of the effects from the harsh conditions are barred from being sent to WSPF, find themselves subjected to those very harsh conditions (and in some respects worse conditions) of torture! I simply don’t get it?!
I surmise the reason the DOC can and does torture us in the segregation units in WCI and GBCI, is because those two prisons are not under any court order, while WSPF is. But doesn’t it boggle the mind, that we can be tortured in WCI seg. units and GBCI seg. units, but not in the WSPF seg. prison.
I believe Ed Garvey and the other attorneys, owe us (the original 7 or 8 of us removed from WSPF under a preliminary injunction court order) a legal responsibility to find out where we are today? For we have been victimized a second time and or in retaliation for having been removed from WSPF.
Justice delayed, is justice denied!
Sincerely,
Jerry Saenz
p.s.
Also worthy of note. Like at WSPF (in the beginning anyway, for I believe in this area things have improved), both WCI seg. and GBCI seg., are like a freezer during the winter and like an incinerator during the summer.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Always in the struggle.
Jerry
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