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{{short description|Male prison in Boscobel, Wisconsin, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}

{{Infobox prison
| prison_name    = Wisconsin Secure Program Facility
| image          = Wisconsin Secure Program Facility.png
| caption        = WSPF photographed from Morrison Street in April 2022
| location       = 1101 Morrison Drive <br /> [[Boscobel, Wisconsin]]
| coordinates    = 
| status         = Open
| classification = Maximum
| capacity       = 500
| opened         = November 1999
| closed         = 
| managed_by     = [[Wisconsin Department of Corrections]]
| warden         = Gary Boughton
|population=372}}

The '''Wisconsin Secure Program Facility''' ('''WSPF'''), originally the '''[[Supermax]] Correctional Institution''',<ref name="Supermax">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020606230437/http://www.wi-doc.com/supermax.htm |title=Supermax Correctional Institution |work=[[Wisconsin Department of Corrections]] |archive-date=June 6, 2002 |access-date=October 10, 2010 |url=http://www.wi-doc.com/supermax.htm |date=October 17, 2000 }}</ref> is a [[Wisconsin Department of Corrections]] prison for men, located in [[Boscobel, Wisconsin]], US.<ref name="census">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US5508850&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on |title=Boscobel city, Wisconsin |work=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=October 10, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Profile">{{cite web |url=http://www.wi-doc.com/WSPF.htm |title=Wisconsin Secure Program Facility |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914033104/http://www.wi-doc.com/WSPF.htm |archive-date=September 14, 2010 |work=[[Wisconsin Department of Corrections]] |access-date=October 10, 2020 }}</ref> The facility is located east of central Boscobel, off of [[Wisconsin Highway 133]].<ref name="Supermax" />

The prison has a capacity of 500. As of November 2022, the population is 372.<ref>{{cite web |title=Corrections at a glance / {{as written|Div|ison [sic]}} of Adult Institutions |url=https://www.wistatedocuments.org/digital/collection/p267601coll4/id/31837/rec/1 |website=Wisconsin Digital Archives |access-date=4 February 2023}}</ref>

== History ==
In November 1999, the WSPF opened as the Supermax Correctional Institution on a {{convert|24|acre|adj=on}} site.<ref name="Supermax" />

In October 2003, the prison was renamed to the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Wisconsin Secure Program Facility annual report (FY 2017) |url=https://www.wistatedocuments.org/digital/collection/p267601coll4/id/17100/ |website=Wisconsin Digital Archives}}</ref>

In 2009, the [[Associated Press]] filed a lawsuit against WIDOC, trying to force the agency to release a video of an explosion of a stinger grenade launched into a prisoner's cell.<ref name="grenade">{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091026/us-inmate-grenade/ |title=AP Files Lawsuit Over Video Of Grenade Detonation At Wisconsin Prison |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=October 26, 2009 |access-date=October 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029105533/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091026/us-inmate-grenade/ |archive-date=October 29, 2009 |first=Scott |last=Bauer }}</ref> The video was eventually released, the AP was awarded legal fees, and the inmate settled an excessive force lawsuit with the Wisconsin DOC for US$49,000 ({{Inflation|US|49000|2009|fmt=eq}}).<ref>{{cite news |title=Wisconsin Prison Releases Video of Grenade Attack |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/11/16/wisconsin-prison-releases-video-grenade-attack.html |access-date=August 26, 2016 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Fox News |date=November 16, 2009 }}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of Wisconsin state prisons]]

== Notable inmates ==
* [[Christopher Scarver]] (1999–2001; now at [[Centennial Correctional Facility]] in Colorado)
* Eric Hainstock, perpetrator of the [[2006 Weston High School shooting]]
* [[Darrell E. Brooks Jr.]], perpetrator of the [[Waukesha Christmas parade attack|2021 Waukesha parade attack]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* "[https://doc.wi.gov/Pages/OffenderInformation/AdultInstitutions/WisconsinSecureProgramFacility.aspx Wisconsin Secure Program Facility]." [[Wisconsin Department of Corrections]].

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