Youth prison staff were taught abusive tactics
Madison — Staff at the state’s problem-plagued youth prison were taught to use abusive techniques when interacting with teenage offenders under the decade-long tenure of the facility’s lead training officer, new records show.
Investigators with the Department of Corrections determined that Dustin Meunier’s failure to properly teach staff security techniques resulted in a “high volume” of injuries at Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls, including broken arms and wrists.
Meunier, who was fired in May, hung up on a reporter without answering any questions.
Documents released under the state’s open records law reveal that Meunier engaged in serious and sweeping misconduct at Lincoln Hills School — including showing a video of another officer using unjustified force to train workers, failing to stop staff he witnessed abusing teens, overlooking incidents where excessive force was used and falsifying records.
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