A 21-year-old McFarland man, who struggled with mental illness and was accused of making telephone threats that locked down the UW-Madison campus in 2007, killed himself Monday night, three days after his arrival in a state prison where he was in solitary confinement.
The Department of Corrections is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the death of Jesse A. Miller at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, where he was found by staff during rounds at 11:58 p.m. Monday “lying face up on the floor, motionless and nonresponsive” with torn fabric from a sheet or pillowcase wrapped around his neck, spokesman John Dipko said.