The last of the “Monfils Six” will remain behind bars. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says a parole commissioner recommends against granting parole to Keith Kutska. He’s one of six paper workers convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the murder of a fellow employee, Thomas Monfils at the former James River Mill in 1992. Kutska was viewed as the ringleader of the plan to kill Monfils and toss his body in a pulp vat at the mill. That was in retaliation for Monfils reporting Kutska’s theft of electrical wiring from the mill. The parole commissioner determined all of Kutska’s conduct and programming requirements, including risk reduction, time served and release plan requirements remained unmet. An eight-month deferral was ordered before parole could be considered again.
