Leader of Kenosha Facility Moves to
Boot Camp;
Prison Security Director to Oversee Milwaukee Center
MADISON – Wisconsin Department of
Corrections (DOC) Secretary Matthew Frank today announced that he has
appointed new Superintendents to oversee two DOC correctional facilities.
Dave Andraska moved from Superintendent of Kenosha Correctional Center (KCC)
to Superintendent of Black River Falls Correctional Center (BRCC) on Sept.
3. Michael Cockroft, currently the Security Director at Racine Youthful
Offender Correctional Facility (RYOCF), will lead Felmers Chaney
Correctional Center (FCCC) in Milwaukee starting Sept. 17.
With his corrections career dating to
1987, Andraska has had leadership roles in the Department’s Bureau of
Correctional Enterprises and Jackson Correctional Institution prior to
overseeing KCC starting in May 2004.
During his time at KCC, Andraska expanded
the work release program to more than 90 inmates, with a majority of
participants maintaining their jobs upon release. He also has chaired the
Wisconsin Correctional Center System Policy & Procedure Committee for two
years. Additionally, Andraska served as interim Superintendent at FCCC
since May 2006 even as he continued to oversee KCC.
Cockroft
began his DOC career in 1995 as a Youth Counselor at Ethan Allen School (EAS)
and promoted in 1999 to Supervising Youth Counselor, in which he was a
Supervisor at a Day Report Center in Milwaukee for juveniles and young
adults. In 2003, he became RYOCF’s Security Director. Cockroft also is a
Desert Storm Veteran, having served in the U.S. Army as a Section Chief.
Both correctional centers play critical
roles within the DOC’s correctional center system. As one of two boot camp
facilities in the DOC, Black River Falls is the site of the Challenge
Incarceration Program, a highly structured, six-month program combining
enhanced accountability with intensive alcohol and drug abuse treatment,
counseling and other programming to promote successful reentry of
offenders back into the community as law-abiding citizens. Based in
Milwaukee, the Felmers Cheney facility is one of three minimum-security
correctional centers in the state’s largest city, all of which focus
primarily on work-release programming to prepare inmates to be productive,
gainfully employed citizens upon their return to the community.
