Wisconsin youth prison counselor is declared brain-dead after inmate assault

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A county coroner says a counselor at Wisconsin’s youth prison has been declared brain-dead following a fight with an inmate. Lincoln County Coroner Valerie Caylor says Wednesday the man was declared brain-dead on Tuesday so the family could proceed with organ donation. State Department of Corrections officials identified him as 49-year-old Corey Proulx. He was injured during a fight Monday night at Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools, the state’s youth prison in Irma in northern Wisconsin. According to court records, the 16-year-old inmate attacked Proulx in a courtyard. Proulx fell during the fight and hit his head on the pavement. Prosecutors charged the inmate Wednesday with second-degree reckless homicide, felony murder-battery, and two counts of battery by a prisoner.