Reply ID# 6348

Reply to Momof2boys concerning
PREA Violations at W.C.I.
dated 6 September 2016
by Nate A. Lindell

Thanks for your activism, and I apologize for not replying to you sooner. Busy with litigation and autobio on prison.

It's for people such as you that I attach documents, include staff's names and cite specific records, so you can use my reports as evidence in suits or in press releases.

Speaking of press releases, I suggest that you share what you discovered from your open records' requests with Carley Waits @wisconsinwatch.org, as they're investigating the WDOC for its overuse of segregation.

I wrote to my congressman, Ron Kind (www.kind.house.gov), and briefly told him what I observed happen to others and what staff did to me at WCCI, stressing that the WDOC shouldn't get federal funds (the WDOC gets millions each year—you may look this up on doc.wi.gov—for a variety of programs) since they're outrageously violating the PREA (amongst other fed laws). You should contact him too. I didn't have your email, but did tell him to see your comment to my post.

You realize it's all about the $; most don't. The WDOC and other prison programs gets 10s of millions each year, supposedly to run legitimate programs (e.g. addiction treatment) or fund compliance with laws such as the PREA. But the money is merely used to provide more jobs to prison staff, oftentimes the relatives of other staff. Here, Capt. Lebbeus Brown has his sister, son, and daughter employed as guards, etc. And the administration instills and permits those staff to employ a regressive, negative, and disrespectful attitude in their future employment. The PREA outrages are merely one example.

See one of my earlier posts "Fraud + Fiscal Profligacy... for details on other scams prison officials use to steal and scam.

Thank you for your efforts, and you're free to get in touch for further collaboration. Sorry about what happened to your boy or boys.

Nate