Our members include nurse clinicians, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants and therapists. I have been in numerous prisons throughout Wisconsin.
Some buildings are newer and more modern than others, but otherwise little is different.
Each and every day, nurses and other health care professionals literally put their lives on the line in order to provide health care to Wisconsin's prison population. At Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a nurse was called to a housing unit to find an inmate severely cut on both arms. She entered the cell alone as guards stood outside. When she asked the inmate what she cut herself with, the inmate showed her the razor, still clutched in her hand. Go to any health services unit on any given day, and you find it filled with inmates waiting to be seen.