INTRODUCTION
Flambeau Correctional
Center (FCC) is located in the Flambeau River Forest, in Northwestern Wisconsin,
approximately 10.5 miles north of Highway 8 on County Road "M" in Sawyer County.
Flambeau Correctional Camp opened in 1954
and was built to house minimum security inmates. The inmates from Flambeau Camp were to
supply a labor force to help develop the newly created Flambeau River State Forest. In the
1960's the focus changed and only juvenile offenders were housed at Flambeau. The
juveniles attended local high schools in the area.
In 1980 Flambeau was closed briefly and
re-opened in 1981 as a treatment center. In 1982 the focus returned to that of a work
Center for minimum security inmates.
PROGRAMS
Currently, FCC is an
80-bed minimum security correctional
facility for adult males. The Center provides various types of
off-grounds work such as DNR forestry labor, work release with private businesses and community service
projects. Inmates also have an opportunity to attend school on-grounds and earn their High
School Equivalency
Degree,
obtain or renew their driver's license, participating in Cognitive Intervention
Program (CGIP), AODA
Program, Alcoholic Anonymous
and Narcotics Anonymous, religious activities and job employability skills workshops. Other
in-house programs include Center work assignments and wood production shop.
Twenty staff (12 security and 8
non-security) members provide supervision and programs to the inmates.
FCC provides offenders with opportunities
to live, work, and receive treatment and training that will assist them in leading
successful and productive lives once they return to
their community. FCC prepares the offender for release and provides a
transition from prison to supervision in the community. FCC affords
offenders opportunities to adjust to
the freedom and life in the outside world
gradually and responsibly, so that they
become valued and contributing members of society.
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