High-profile Inmates
Some notorious individuals who have been incarcerated at CCI include:
- Filemon Amaro - Waukesha County courtroom shootout in 1978 that killed two sheriff's deputies
- Jesse Anderson - Murderer
- Kim Brown - Serial Killer
- Jeffrey Dahmer (1960 – 1994) - cannibal and serial killer; Dahmer was beaten to death inside the prison.
- Joseph Hecht - Contract Killer
- James Oswald - Convicted of a crime spree in the mid-1990s that included, kidnapping, bank robberies, wounding two officers and killing Waukesha Police Captain James Lutz
- Christopher Scarver - Convicted murderer who, while in prison, killed Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson
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