Introduction

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is currently going through a power-struggle-transition. National social-awareness and civil-litigation is forcing the D.O.C. to regulate how they use and apply their “long-term-segregation-units”, as punishment on inmates, because of the psychological effects that it causes on their “mental health”.

Prisoner James Kohrs at Missouri's Booneville Correctional Center explains that the federal government gives the State of Missouri funding to put prisoners through a program called Pathways to Change. He and several of his fellow prisoners express concerns that the State of Missouri is not using these funds according to the guidelines outlined in the program.