Dane County begins closing City-County Building portion of jail, shipping inmates to other counties
LUCAS ROBINSON and JEFF RICHGELS
Wisconsin State Journal
Updated
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett views the interior of an empty isolation cell at the City-County Building jail, one of the county's three jail facilities. Barrett has described the facility as inhumane.
LUCAS ROBINSON and JEFF RICHGELS
Wisconsin State Journal
Lt. Jeffrey Heil manually opens an empty cell in an eight-person cellblock as he gives a tour of the seventh floor at the Dane County Jail, which is in the process of being closed and inmates relocated because of a staffing shortage.
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The shower area of an empty eight-person cellblock on the seventh floor of the Dane County Jail, the oldest part of the facility, which is being closed and inmates relocated.
A common area of an empty eight-person cellblock on the seventh floor of the Dane County Jail.
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett views the interior of an empty isolation cell at the City-County Building jail, one of the county's three jail facilities. Barrett has described the facility as inhumane.
The shower area of an empty eight-person cellblock on the seventh floor of the Dane County Jail, the oldest part of the facility, which is being closed and inmates relocated.
Lt. Jeffrey Heil manually opens an empty cell in an eight-person cellblock as he gives a tour of the seventh floor at the Dane County Jail, which is in the process of being closed and inmates relocated because of a staffing shortage.
