Plan to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake and relocate youth now up in the air. By Graham Kilmer - Dec 30th, 2020 02:42 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
The state will likely have to extend the deadline once again for closing the youth corrections facilities at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.
The youth prisons’ deadline for closing was July 2021, but there is no plan in place for where to put the youth that need to remain in a secured facility after the closure.
Mark Mertens, administrator of Milwaukee County’s Division of Youth and Family Services, said that if the state and county came to an agreement today concerning the funding to build a new facility in Milwaukee, the improvements on the new facility would not be ready before the deadline.