USA Today Network’s Post-Crescent obtained more than 1900 pages of emails final week after the publication requested the documents under state opens records laws on January 26. The paper asked for emails sent or received by staff that pertained to Steven Avery,Brendan Dassey or “Making a assassin.”1. Officials feared for safety of Steven Avery and Brendan DasseyAn email by corrections employee Donald Strahota on Jan. 10 read that officials “offered [Avery] the opportunity to change housing and possibly a cell by the staff desk. He declined. We also discussed the opportunity of moving to another institution and he didn’t consider it was essential.”This came after Department of Corrections Secretary Ed Wall was concerned that Avery would be harmed whether “someone seeks their own 15 minutes of fame by doing something to him.”2. Dassey was transferred Avery’s nephew was transferred from Green Bay to Columbia Correctional Facility in January. Although the emails didn’t mention the reason for the move, Wisconsin Department of Corrections spokesman Tristan Cook said it was due to “conflict of interest.3. Dassey and Avery received donations from all over the globeThe emails also revealed that Avery and Dassey received wire transfers ranging from $10 to $50 from around the world. A Jan. 5 email by a staffer said that a $10 transfer wasnt denied because Dassey “is not engaging in an enterprise or business.”4. Avery’s requests to watch “Making a assassin” were deniedBill Pollard, and warden of the Waupun prison where Avery is being held,replied, “He seems to relish the notoriety… The only correspondence I received from him was a request to view the docu-drama from Netflix which I denied.”Pollard is no longer the warden of Waupun prison.5. All media requests were also deniedEmails revealed that Bill Pollard, or former warden of the Waupun prison where Avery is being held,rejected a TV station’s request to interview Avery, calling Teresa Halbach “Jessica Halbach.”“I am not inclined to participate in adding any credibility or inmate perspective on a case that has already been tried, and ” he wrote Dec. 30. “Nor conclude I consider we should participate or authorize this which could victimize the family of Jessica Halbach by allow (sic) such an interview. Money has already been coming in from all over for him due to the notoriety and I conclude not consider is (sic) a good idea to make it any bigger deal than it actually is.”No media requests enjoy been granted to date.6. Brendan’s brother and his sincerity was questionedNBC26 reported that in another email,officials thought Brad Dassey’s visits to his brother may be “for secondary gains.”
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