Ex-Inmate Starts Scholarship Fund: will aid kids with incarcerated parents

Salt Lake City Weekly:

By Eric S. Peterson
Posted May 18,2011

Karl “Willy” Winsness had a lot to think about during his 17 years in the Utah State Prison. One thought was why, as he alleges, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s officers who raided his Rose Park apartment with a “no-knock” warrant didn’t identify themselves as law enforcement before they kicked his door down and he ended up shooting one officer through the arm. The officer lived and Winsness got five years to life. While Winsness worked on a legal defense to exonerate himself, he also dreamed that a monetary award might someday be available to provide a scholarship for children of inmates who lacked a mom or dad to help support them—a pain Winsness knew firsthand, being unable to support his two daughters while he was incarcerated.

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