Posted on 04/07/2006 10:24:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, WI (AP) -- A man convicted of killing six deer hunters and wounding two others in a shooting spree in northwestern Wisconsin was moved to an Iowa prison because of security concerns.
Corrections officials moved Chai Soua Vang to the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, in January, according to state records. He had been imprisoned at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun.
Officials moved him because they had safety concerns for corrections staff, inmates and others, said Dan Westfield, security chief for the Department of Corrections' division of adults institutions.
Westfield compared the case to that of convicted Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was killed in 1994 by another inmate.
"The reasons we move an inmate, and I'll use the Dahmer situation, is that there is a lot of media attention and it stirs a lot of emotion," Westfield said Friday. "Wisconsin is a state with a lot of deer hunters, and we have a lot of inmates who are deer hunters, and there are some racial concerns."
During his trial, Vang, a Hmong immigrant, testified he shot in self-defense at the white hunters after they hurled profanities and racial slurs and took a shot at him. Two survivors testified no one pointed a gun at Vang.
The shooting occurred on the second day of the 2004 deer hunting season after Vang trespassed in a tree stand on private land in Sawyer County. Vang, 37, of St. Paul, Minn., was sentenced Nov. 8 to six consecutive life prison terms with no chance for parole.
Westfield said he has not heard of any incidents in prison involving Vang. He said he didn't know how long Vang will stay in Iowa.
"After an amount of time, it's not fresh in people's minds," Westfield said.
Corrections Department spokesman John Dipko said Wisconsin has agreements with other states to hold inmates in high-profile cases.
"Generally, we cite safety concerns as reasons for the moves," he said.
So...Iowa Freepers? Remind your relatives that work in the Iowa prison system, and your local press what Vang did, could you? Thanks! :)
"They're Moving Vang to Iowa" Ping.
Don't know, are they sending a big check along with him? I don't want to pay for his 3 squares a day.
When IS Vang season?
Maybe they believe there are no hunters in Iowa prisons. I think they're wrong.
"After an amount of time, it's not fresh in people's minds," Westfield said.
No, Westfield, it will just be a matter of time until Vang is gone. Inmates have LONG memories.
Fort Madison Pentiteniary had a major prison break six months ago. Two inmates, one of them a convicted murderer, escaped.
24 x 7 x 365, IMO.
"Fort Madison Penitentiary had a major prison break six months ago. Two inmates, one of them a convicted murderer, escaped."
They're moving him for PC reasons and nothing more. There was big trouble when Dahmer was killed in prison because, you know, he had "feeeeeelings" and it was so "unfaaaair" to be beaten to death versus what his victims went through...you know, being eaten alive and all that. *Rolleyes*
Hopefully Vang's already had the cr@p beat out of him a time or two by other WI inmates and the media just isn't telling us that part of the story. There had to have been some problems if they're bothering to move him.
We need CC and the Death Penalty in this state. Can't WAIT to get rid of our socialist Governor and then we'll take it from there. :)
he's a shaman so he can just cast a spell on his adversaries when a gun's not handy.
My thoughts exactly, especially in that part of Iowa....
The multiple cold blooded murderer would have to bear the burden of racial slurs and ridicule? Poor guy, get him out of that he!!..../sarcasm
Everyday.
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