This past weekend, I blogged a bit about some of the crazy stuff happening at the Milwaukee County House of Corrections and its work release facility, CCC. I noted the fact that when asked about inmates being allowed to stay up until 3:30 a.m. on the weekends, Ron Malone, the Superintendent of the HOC, declined to comment, saying he wasn’t familiar with inmate hours. I noted how odd it was that the Superintendent didn’t know the policies and procedures of the facility he was charged with supervising, and so you can imagine my surprise when I happened across an article in today’s MJS that notes the inmate “all-nighters” on weekends have been cancelled, effective immediately.
What’s most curious about the change is a comment by Superintendent Malone, who said the change was made in part because of the MJS’s previous article on the inmate late nights, but also had been under consideration and would likely have been made by January in any case. So only a week ago Ron Malone said he didn’t know the inmates’ curfew on the weekends, yet now he’s saying that changing curfew had already been under consideration? What’s more, the President of the corrections officers’ union told the MJS Malone told him he was adamantly opposed to changing the policy during a recent meeting with the union.
I’m willing to bet this policy wasn’t already under review; it just got changed because the HOC’s management – and no doubt the County Executive – can ill afford more bad publicity in an election year.
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