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Wisconsin juvenile prisons on lockdown for contraband search
By gmtoday.com
Published: 11/01/2017

MADISON — Wisconsin's juvenile prisons were placed on lockdown Tuesday for a system-wide contraband search after a recent spike in violent clashes between inmates and guards fueled concerns about a full-scale riot.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections confirmed that the search was underway at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake prisons, located in Irma north of Wausau. Department spokesman Tristan Cook tamped down speculation that the search was in response to concerns voiced by prison workers that inmates were planning a larger disturbance.

"There's no indication that youth are planning any disturbance or riot," Cook said.

The search comes three weeks after a Lincoln Hills teacher was punched in the face and knocked unconscious by an inmate. On Oct. 22, five prison workers were sent to the hospital after separate violent clashes with inmates. And in August four inmates climbed to the roof of their housing unit, throwing shingles and pieces of metal and guards.

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