From left, health services manager Kris Thome, DOC Secretary Kevin Carr and Oakhill Correctional Institution Warden Clinton Bryant give a tour of Oakhill's new Assisted Needs Facility.
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Wisconsin Department of Corrections staff gave a tour of a new $7 million Assisted Needs Facility at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon Wednesday afternoon. The facility is attached to the existing health services office at the minimum-security prison.
Oakhill Correctional Institution program supervisor Mya Yohr, left, shows a multipurpose room in a new Assisted Needs Facility at the prison. The room will have treadmills, incumbent bikes and an area to have video visits with family.
Health services manager Kris Thome, right, says this walk-in bathtub can be used for therapy for some prisoners. Staff can also assist with bathing for those who need help.
This 25-bed section is for long-term geriatric care. Another 25 beds are in a separate room.
In photos, videos: See inside of the Dane County Jail
See inside the Dane County Jail facilities
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett views detention cells inside the 1950’s-era section of the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett shows visitors to the Dane County Jail one of the facility’s medical detention cells in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett is reflected in a mirror inside a 1950’s-era elevator at the Dane County Jail in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Dane County Jail personnel work inside a secured workspace at the facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Renderings of a proposed new Dane County Jail are displayed on a wall inside the county’s current facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
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Inmates engage in a lunch hour game of chess inside a group detention area at the Dane County Jail. The jail has few places to isolate inmates from each other, creating significant health risks for those incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. An outbreak in the jail in November resulted in 120 COVID-19 cases among inmates through the end of December.
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Incoming inmates are processed at the jail. The number of people taken to jail dropped considerably during the pandemic as police arrested fewer people and the state Department of Corrections became more relaxed in how it handled probation and parole violations.
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Jail personnel monitor activity inside the Dane County Jail on an array of closed-circuit television screens.
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett checks an empty isolation cell at the Dane County Jail. The jail population plummeted during the pandemic after several reforms were hastily implemented. Only some of those changes are expected to continue, prompting fears of a jump in the population.
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Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett says one of his top priorities is keeping the jail population low, but he acknowledges not all of the pandemic-era changes are going to be sustainable.
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A detention cell at the Dane County Jail is sanitized with an ultraviolet cleaning device at the facility in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 1, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
