CH3000:WI Nat'l Guard Updates Plans To Guard Prisons (sans Walker Request?)

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Spokeswoman: Walker Hasn't Asked Guard To Be On Alert

MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin National Guard spokeswoman said its members have been visiting prisons to prepare for securing them in the event that correctional officers walk off the job to protest Gov. Scott Walker.

Lt. Col. Jackie Guthrie said Tuesday that guard members visited the Redgranite Correctional Institution in central Wisconsin and others in recent weeks. She stressed that the visits were to update long-standing contingency plans for providing services during an emergency, and that Walker had not asked the guard to be on alert.

Guthrie noted that then-Acting Gov. Martin Schreiber activated 6,000 members of the guard in 1977 amid a work stoppage to guard prisoners and deliver other state services. She said that, based on history, "of course we're going to be prepared should such a call come."