There is a lot of sad news coming out of Wisconsin in recent years. Its hard to tell when the state has hit rock bottom. the saddest news is about to come. Abuse at a northern Wisconsin youth center.This time there is no gray area, it is not left vs right or Republican vs. Democrat. This is about human decency and neglect. The details may be disturbing. Please proceed with Caution. The Lincoln Hills School for Boys is a juvenile detention center in the small town of Irma Wisconsin. There was a raid that took place after David Forsythe an agent for Wisconsin Department of Justice launched an investigation into the school. Two people were interviewed during a secret hearing as part of a investigation into use of force against juveniles Lincoln County Circuit Judge Robert Russell found that there was "reason to believe" that those crimes and several more — child neglect, abuse of prisoners, strangulation and suffocation, using pepper spray to cause bodily harm or discomfort, tampering with public records and misconduct in public office had been committed. Unfortunately this goes back even further and It is not good. In February of 2011, One month after Walker took his oath. A Racine County Judge Sent a letter to Governor Walker ( Copied to Lincoln Hills Superintendent) with an attached memo detailing a botched investigation into the sexual assault and beating of one Lincoln Hills inmate by another. The office of the Governor claimed that they did not receive this email until February of 2016. In late 2014 an internal investigation into the school was initiated and some staff were put on leave. information held by the DOC was passed to the Lincoln County Sheriff, who then forwarded the investigation to the state Department of Justice. The DOJ then commenced its investigation in January, 2015. In march 2015 State Rep. Mary Czaja gets approached and meets with staff about her concerns. This meetings went nowhere. The FBI gets involved and raids the facility, by February 2016 this now becomes an FBI case. Governor Walker finally acknowledged that he read the memo back in 2012. Department of Corrections Secretary Ed wall resigned a day after. He was looking to get his old job back at the Department of Justice. This is where things got interesting. JB Van Hollen was Attorney General at this time. When Wall was DOC secretary JB asked Wall to get his wife a job as a DOC Attorney. “He asked me to find her a position there as an attorney since he was not running again, so they would have an income source and benefits,” Wall told the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. “J.B. is still at me because I didn’t promote his wife into the chief legal position and went to the chief of staff of the governor in an attempt to override me,” Wall testified. DOJ officials then immediately transferred Wall to another position and put him on paid administrative leave in order to avoid conflicts of interest with the probe into the state’s Lincoln Hills School for Boys Ed Wall was fired after he told Governor Walkers chief of staff to shred any documents Wall sent to him. This is the perception I am getting. Ed Wall and Governor Walker knew what was going on and chose to ignore it. The end result is juveniles being sexually assaulted beaten. Remember Scott Walker wasn't even in the state half the time. He was running for president.
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