Legal Opinion
Brianna Froehlich and Kendra Froehlich, by Their Guardian Ad Litem Robert E. Sutton v. State of Wisconsin, Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 10, 1999No. 99-1102PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Wisconsin’s prisons are fearfully overcrowded and by way of solution the state has contracted with prisons in other states to house some of Wisconsin’s prisoners at Wisconsin’s expense. See, e.g., Mike Flaherty, “Best-Behaving Prisoners Are Exported, Guards Complain: They Handle Harder Cases, They Claim,” Wis. St. J., March 24, 1999, p. 1B. One of these is a federal prison in West Virginia and to it Wisconsin has transferred Carin Froehlich, who is serving a seven-year sentence for embezzlement. She has two young children, aged 3 and 5 respectively, who live with their…
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