10/30/2009
For information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, 307.777.6085 mbrazz@wdoc.state.wy.us The Wyoming Department of Corrections (WDOC) announces that all senior leadership in the Division of Prisons has attained the Correctional Executives Certification (CCE) from the American Correctional Association (ACA), following the example set by the director of the department, Robert O.
10/14/2009
For more information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, (307) 777-6085; e-mail mbrazz@wdoc.state.wy.us Earl Leroy Brown, Sr., a Wyoming inmate, died Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon, after a long illness.
10/13/2009
For information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, (307) 777-6085, e-mail mbrazz@wdoc.state.wy.us The next quarterly meeting of the Prison Community Partnership Committee for the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) will be on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 6 p.m.
10/9/2009
For information contact: Christy Hahn, Re-entry Program Coordinator, 307.777.3775, CHAHN@wdoc.state.wy.us or Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, 307.777.6085, MBRAZZ@wdoc.state.wy.us The Wyoming Department of Corrections has been awarded the Transition from Prison Community Initiative, the department announced today.
10/5/2009
For more information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, 307.777.6085 The previously announced quarterly Prison Community Partnership Committee meeting for the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington, has been POSTPONED.
9/25/2009
Read Warden Murphy's letter to the editor of the Torrington Telegram for the community's welcome to the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution.
9/22/2009
Read on the University of Wyoming web page about Kristen Young, 2009 Summer Intern for the Correctional Industries Program.
9/21/2009
For more information contact: Courtney Herceg, Field Public Information Officer, (307) 777-7390 Two women in the Wyoming Department of Corrections are breaking down barriers and changing perception as the first two female captains at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, Wyoming.
9/14/2009
Contact: Tami Afdahl, Director of College Relations, 307.532.8206, tami.afdahl@ewc.wy.edu (Torrington, Wyoming, September 14, 2009)…The partnership between Eastern Wyoming College and the Wyoming Department of Corrections became even stronger this past week as individuals from the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) began operating out of temporary offices located on the main campus in Torrington.
9/10/2009
For information contact: Mike Murphy, warden, Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution, 307.534.2998.
9/10/2009
9/4/2009
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Effective Hours: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Friday, September 4, 2009 For information contact: Cindy Ferguson, Field Public Information Officer, (307) 856-9578 This morning, the Wyoming Honor Farm, Riverton Police Department, Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, and the Fremont County Fair Board, in conjunction with the Wyoming State Penitentiary, Wyoming Highway Patrol, and the office of Homeland Security will be conducting an emergency preparedness drill, in Riverton, Wyoming.
8/19/2009
For information contact: Amy Rubino, BLM, 307.775.6014 The Bureau of Land Management, the Wyoming Honor Farm and the Mantle Ranch Training Facility of Wheatland will host an adoption in Riverton, Wyoming on August 28-29, 2009.
8/6/2009
For information contact: Bill Payne, Field Services Training Coordinator, Wyoming Department of Corrections, in Laramie, at 307.760.5253.
8/5/2009
For information contact: Lee Williams, Wyoming State Forestry Division, Honor Farm Site Manager, (307) 856-9578 or Cindy Ferguson, Field Public Information Officer, Wyoming Honor Farm, (307) 856-9578 The fourteen inmate fire fighters from the Wyoming Honor Farm (WHF) earned kudos at the second annual WYO-FIRE training that took place this year at Camp Guernsey in Guernsey, Wyoming, from May 28 to June 1.
7/31/2009
CORRECTION ON MEETING LOCATION: It is now in the Community Training Room, Eastern Wyoming College For information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, Cheyenne, (307) 777-6085, or Rick Patterson, PCPC chairman, Torrington, (307) 532-8344 The next quarterly meeting of the Prison Community Partnership Committee for the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) will be in Torrington on Wednesday, August 12, 6 p.m.
7/30/2009
For information contact: Melinda Brazzale, Public Information Officer, Cheyenne, (307) 777-6085 or Rick Patterson, PCPC chairman, Torrington, 307-532-8344 The next quarterly meeting of the Prison Community Partnership Committee for the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution (WMCI) will be in Torrington on Wednesday, August 12, 6 p.m.