The Racine Correctional Institution is a medium-security state prison for men located in Sturtevant,

Racine County, Wisconsin Racine County ( ) is a County (United States), county in southeastern Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 197,727, making it Wisconsin's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Racine, Wisconsi ...

, owned and operated by the

Wisconsin Department of Corrections The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WIDOC) is an administrative department in the executive branch of the state of Wisconsin responsible for corrections in Wisconsin, including state prisons and community supervision. The secretary is a cab ...

. The facility opened in 1991 and, and of June 2023, held 1,610 prisoners.

Notable current and former inmates

* Gerald M. Turner (nicknamed "The Halloween Killer") - convicted of raping and murdering 9-year-old trick-or-treater, Lisa Ann French in 1973, released from Racine Correctional Institution in 2018. * Joshua Ziminski - career criminal and participant in the

Kenosha unrest shooting On August 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, shot and killed two men and wounded another man in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shootings occurred during the Kenosha unrest, protests, riots, and civil unrest that follow ...

sentenced to 3 years for burglary and robbery with threat of force with charges related to the unrest dismissed.https://appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/details/detail

References

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