A nurse charged in connection with the death of a Waupun prison inmate has been bound over for trial. Probable cause was found at a preliminary hearing in Dodge County Circuit Court Thursday for 47 year old Jessica Ann Hosfelt of Oshkosh on a charge of abuse of a resident of a penal facility in the death of 62 year old Donald Maier. Hosfelt is one of nine staff members at the Waupun prison charged in connection with either Maier’s death of the death of 24 year old Cameron Williams. According to a criminal complaint Maier died of dehydration and malnutrition in February after prison staff failed to bring him meals and employees turned off his access to water after they say he flooded his cell. Williams died of a stroke last October after staff ignored his signs of distrress and failed to perform required checks according to prosecutors.
