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Article: HOT SHOTS HISTORIC MUG SHOTS FROM WAUPON PRISON ARE BEING PROCESSED BY THE WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.(DAYBREAK)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2006
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Byline: CHRIS MARTELL cmartell@madison.com (608) 252-6179
Waupun State Prison has loomed ominously over the small central Wisconsin city for which it's named since it was built in 1854. Its Gothic limestone towers and 22-foot-high walls symbolize the end of the line, the bottom of the barrel for law-breakers.
Today's inmate population at Waupun has changed dramatically since its earliest days, when it held 66 men, five women and a 9-year-old boy convicted of stealing. Most inmates in the 1940s were working-class Caucasians: farmers, factory workers, carpenters, laborers, typists and truck drivers.
Today, women, juveniles and the criminally ...