Sex, Drugs & Wiccan Chaplains: The Sordid Tale of a Wisconsin Prison Hostage Crisis
Jamyi J. Witch is a 52-year-old Wiccan minister who was hired by Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Correctional Institution to be its first ever Wiccan prison chaplain way back in 2001. We doubt Jamyi J. Witch is her real name, and we doubt the necessity for a prison to hire a Wiccan chaplain. But, hey, to each their own.
Witch faces second-degree sexual assault charges by correctional staff, delivery of schedule I or II narcotics and delivering illegal articles to an inmate for her role in a fake hostage situation. If convicted she faces 58 years, six months imprisonment and $160,000 in fines.
Wait, we jumped ahead too far. Let’s rewind and see what this is all about.
Back in early August of this year, there was a hostage situation at the correctional institution involving Witch and an inmate. The situation lasted about an hour and caused the entire prison to go on lockdown. It was initially believed the male inmate had forced himself inside, barricaded the room, held Witch hostage and then sexually assaulted her. That’s generally how these scenarios play out.
Two weeks after these hostage situation, the prison intercepted a letter written from the inmate to his mother, who at this point had been transferred to Green Bay Correctional. In his letter a much different picture of the events unfolded.
Here’s where things take a turn for weird, if you can believe it. The Wiccan’s plan seems to have less to do with getting them both out of the prison and more to do with her sexual gratification.
The plan, according to the Northwestern, went something like this:
The inmate said he left his cell on Aug. 10 without signing out and went to Witch’s office. He blocked the door with a board from a bookshelf and Witch’s wheelchair before requesting Witch have sex with him. She complied.
When corrections staff arrived outside Witch’s office, the two began role-playing and the inmate called her his mother. Eventually Witch gave him 15 hydromorphone pills to try to make him sleepy and sang him lullabies. The inmate eventually removed the barricade after corrections staff told him he would get breakfast.
Are Wiccan chaplains known for mommy-son role play? And is this is why you don’t hire Wiccan chaplains? The whole saga is bizarre. But it would make for a good Law & Order: SVU episode.
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