Dodge Correctional Institution

Dodge Correctional Institution

Mr. Jim Schwochert, Warden
1 W. Lincoln Street

PO Box 661
Waupun, WI 53963-0661
Phone: 920-324-5577
Fax: 920-324-6354
A&E Fax: 920-324-6281

Inmate Mail - P.O. Box 700 (ZIP 53963-0700)

Visiting - General Information

Visiting Information DCI Visitation-Inmate

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INSTITUTION MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Dodge Correctional Institution is to serve as the central reception center and to facilitate assessment and evaluation for all adult male inmates sentenced by the trial courts. To promote community safety through effective, humane custody and supervision of inmates, and to provide programs and services to inmates which will enable them to acquire life-coping skills and positive attitudes and values in order to manage their freedom following release without recourse to criminal behavior. In support of this mission, Dodge Correctional Institution has the following broad responsibilities:

1. To receive and process convicted adult male inmates. That includes admission, initial record development, assessment, classification, and providing centralized transportation services.

2. To supervise the movement and restrict the freedom of inmates to the extent necessary to ensure public, staff, and inmate safety.

3. To provide training, work experience, coping skills, and other programs and services which enable and encourage constructive inmate participation and prepare for the eventual reentry of the individual inmates in the community.

4. To monitor and audit institution programs for general effectiveness and achievement of specific results.

5. To administer statutes, DOC Administrative Rules, and Division of Adult Institutions (DAI) policies and procedures.

6. To plan, coordinate, and administer a complex, multi-disciplinary workforce. To provide leadership that is proactive, innovative, and responsive.

7. To ensure that health care is provided to inmates at the institution consistent with professional, community, and correctional health care standards.

8. To manage resources in the most efficient, effective, and practical manner consistent with the attainment of institution goals.

INMATE PROGRAMS

T Dodge Correctional Institution (DCI) functions as the main reception center for all adult males committed to the Department of Corrections. It serves as the Assessment and Evaluation Center for the Division of Adult Institutions. DCI provides limited counseling and programs, which include Alcoholics Anonymous, Reentry Modules and religious services.

HISTORICAL NOTES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION

Chapter 29 of the Laws of 1977, authorized $2,470,000 of general obligation bonds to convert the Central State Hospital to an adult correctional facility. The first two inmates were transferred from the Waupun Correctional Institution to DCI on May 15, 1978. On October 29, 1993, ground was broken for a $45 million expansion which more than doubled the size of the facility. On June 17, 1996, the first female was admitted to DCI making it the only reception center for both male and female adult felons committed to the Department of Corrections. DCI served as the reception center for both males and females until December 1, 2004, when the female reception center moved to Taycheedah Correctional Institution. DCI also serves as the central medical center for the Division providing both in-patient and out-patient care for male and female inmates.