Milwaukee
Secure Detention Facility
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Mr. John Husz,
Warden
1015 North 10th Street
P.O. Box 05740
Milwaukee, WI 53205-0740
414-212-3535
FAX 414-212-6811
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INSTITUTION MISSION STATEMENT
The Milwaukee Secure
Detention Facility protects the public by detention, accountability and
programming of adult inmates in a safe and secure institution while
remaining committed to the goals of successful reintegration to the
community.
INSTITUTION INFORMATION
The Milwaukee Secure Detention
Facility (MSDF) is a high-rise, medium security correctional
facility in downtown Milwaukee. Although it is statutorily an
adult institution, MSDF functions in a similar manner to that of a
jail operation. Unlike other Department of Corrections
institutions, MSDF accepts offenders 24 hours a day, and has an
intake booking/objective classification process closely resembling
that of a county jail.
The Milwaukee Secure Detention
Facility was built to meet the specific needs of Probation and Parole,
knowing that public safety is best served when a non-compliant offender
can be held in secure detention for a period of time pending investigation
of an alleged violation. During this time, the alleged violation can be
investigated and the offender can be placed into programming, including
appropriate treatment. Following this placement, some offenders may
return to the community while others may be revoked and sentenced to a
period of confinement. The operational philosophy of the facility is unit
management – the inmates stay on their assigned floors and services are
brought to the housing units on the floors.
The
uniqueness of this institution has attracted interest from around the
United States. There are very few high rise detention facilities
throughout the country. The ones that exist typically do not provide the
programming and collaboration with the community that MSDF does; something
that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections feels is an important
component to offender change and public safety.
The Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility has a capacity of 1,040 felony
offenders, with beds designated for male (as well as 42 beds for female)
offenders who have been on supervision in the community and are pending
investigation of probation or parole violations. There are also 210 beds
used to provide Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction (AODA) programming,
focusing on Alternatives to Revocation (ATRs). The average stay in the
general holding cells is 67 days. The average stay in the AODA ATR
program is 3 months.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Additional information on
MSDF can be found in their annual reports.
FY04 MSDF Annual Report.pdf
