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Evers Pushes Juvenile Justice System Changes


Sweeping reforms would close youth prisons and end Serious Juvenile Offender Program.
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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 our state both in terms of costs for corrections and lack of investment in rehabilitation, treatment, and alternatives to incarceration,” Evers said during his budget address Tuesday. “We can’t keep throwing taxpayer dollars into a system that doesn’t help our state or our people thrive.” ....

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'He shouldn't have had to die': COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate


‘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
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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 pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exceed their designed capacity. ....

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