JUNEAU, Wis. >> Prosecutors have reduced a felony misconduct charge against a former Wisconsin prison warden implicated in two inmate deaths to a misdemeanor as part of a plea deal, online court records indicated Monday.

Hepp was charged with felony misconduct in office in 2024 in the deaths of Cameron Williams and Donald Maier at the Waupun Correctional Institution, the state’s oldest maximum security facility. He announced his retirement days before he was charged.

Online court records show prosecutors reduced the misconduct charge Monday to violating state-county institution laws. The misconduct charge carried a maximum sentence of three-and-a-half years in prison and $10,000 in fines.

— The Associated Press