Lincoln Hills

Operations are at the best they have been since 2019 at an embattled Wisconsin juvenile prison, while staffing shortages are hampering further progress

The Milwaukee Common Council has approved building a new youth prison in the city.

Tuesday, Governor Evers announced the Department of Corrections has selected a site for the new youth prison. It will be in northwest Milwaukee.

According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, about 22,500 juveniles were arrested in Wisconsin in 2020, the lowest number in at least ten years.

Wisconsin legislators passed a bipartisan agreement this month to build a replacement for the controversial Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons, a move one advocate said should come with a new approach to youth justice.

The legislation would allow the state to borrow $42 million to build a new youth prison in Milwaukee County.

The state Assembly has approved funding for a new youth prison to replace the state's troubled facility in northern Wisconsin

The measure comes after years of delays in closing the embattled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons in Lincoln County.

The Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee has voted to expand a mental health center in Madison to reduce the number of inmates at the state’s juvenile…

Warning: some listeners may find the details in this story disturbing and graphic. The Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake juvenile prisons in Lincoln County were…