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COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons five times higher than state Follow Us Question of the Day Ramiah Whiteside of Milwaukee holds a sign during a protest outside of the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on Nov. 24, 2020. Event organizers sought to draw attention to the thousands of inmates and staff who have contracted ... more > By VANESSA SWALES of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - ...

COVID rate in Wisconsin prisons 5 times higher than state By: Associated Press February 20, 2021 9:32 am Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff on June 18 as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exce...

Sweeping reforms would close youth prisons and end Serious Juvenile Offender Program. //end headline wrapper ?> Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Offenders who are 17 years old wouldn’t be automatically treated as adults in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system under a proposal by Gov. That is one piece of Evers’ proposed state budget, which includes an overhaul to the state’s criminal justice system that has several c...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature overwhelmingly approved a half-billion dollar tax cut Tuesday for businesses that received federal pandemic rel

Republican lawmakers move to block vaccines to state’s prisoners In the past year, COVID-19 has infected more than half of Wisconsin’s overall inmate population, and the infection rate in correctional facilities is five times higher than the state average. That’s according to a recent analysis from investigative outlet Wisconsin Watch.  Protesters and advocacy groups have spent months pushing Wisconsin’s lawmakers to address the crisis. Then, last month, the Department of Health Servic...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature overwhelmingly approved a half-billion dollar tax cut Tuesday for businesses that received federal pandemic relief loans to keep employees on the payroll, a

The coronavirus has run rampant across Wisconsin’s prisons, infecting at least 2,153 staff members at adult institutions and 10,786 inmates throughout the pandemic—more than half of the inmate population.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature overwhelmingly approved a half-billion...

Wisconsin Republicans in the Senate voted to push forward a bill that would ban the state from putting the state's prisoners in prioritized groups for vaccinations.

‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Posted: Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to...