The leader of the Village of Allouez is calling for the closure of the Green Bay Correctional Institution.
Jim Rafter, the president of the Green Bay suburb, sent Seehafer News an email in response to the recently released report by the Wisconsin State Journal which detailed the deteriorating facility and the poor quality of life for inmates.
In the report, journalist Lucas Robinson notes that “Ten guards and a nurse have been investigated by authorities in the last five years for allegations ranging from bringing drugs into the prison to neglecting an inmate who later died,” and that “Assaults prompted a prison lockdown in June, which means the roughly 970 inmates have been largely confined to their cells for nearly four months.”
Rafter said in response to the report that the “Green Bay Correctional Institution needs to be closed. The facility is a danger to the guards, inmates, and the community where it is located. State leaders must step up and take action before it is too late.”
He also said that the state government has no long-term plan for the 125-year-old facility and that he and his team are “ready and eager to work with Gov. Evers and the Legislature so they can come together on a solution that benefits the facility residents, staff, and the community in which the prison resides.”
