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FROEHLICH v. STATE OF WIS., DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 99-1102.

196 F.3d 800 (1999)

Brianna FROEHLICH and Kendra Froehlich, by their guardian ad litem Robert E. Sutton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF WISCONSIN, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Sutton (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiffs-appellants.

James E. Doyle, Anne Christenson Murphy (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ESCHBACH and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Wisconsin's prisons are fearfully overcrowded and by way of solution the state has contracted with prisons in other states to house some of Wisconsin's prisoners at Wisconsin's expense. See, e.g., Mike Flaherty, "Best-Behaving Prisoners Are Exported, Guards Complain: They Handle Harder Cases, They Claim," Wis. St. J., March 24, 1999, p. 1B. One of these is a federal prison in West Virginia and to it Wisconsin has transferred Carin Froehlich...

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