A staff member at northern Wisconsin’s Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools, the state’s only youth prison, was declared brain-dead on Tuesday after an altercation Monday night with an inmate, Channel3000 reports. A 16-year-old inmate at the facility in Irma assaulted a staff member in a residence hall and then attacked a second staff member.
The first staff member was taken to the hospital for treatment and later released; the second staff member’s head struck concrete. The inmate did not require medical treatment.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department, the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation, the Wisconsin State Patrol, and the Lincoln County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.
