The Wisconsin Supreme Court is rejecting a request to release elderly and vulnerable people from state prisons amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The state’s high court denied a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Wisconsin on behalf of two inmates with pre-existing conditions. Legal director Laurence Dupuis is disappointed by the decision. Dupuis said, “the virus already has a foothold in Wisconsin’s prisons, and the outbreak in Milwaukee’s House of Corrections shows how rapidly the virus spreads in jail and prison environments.”
He claims the Department of Corrections has only tested 118 people in its care.
