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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 exceed their designed capacity. (Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch via AP) By VANESSA SWALES Wisconsin Wat...

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 changes to how youth are sentenced and receive treatment. “Our justice system has put a strain on ...

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.

‘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 release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the p...