Lincoln Hills

The bipartisan state building commission unanimously approved spending $15 million to proceed with planning for the Evers proposal. Republicans objected, saying his plan was “doomed to failure,” but they voted for it in the hopes it could be changed later.

Governor Tony Evers says full compliance has been reached with all 50 of the court-ordered reforms at the schools

Rian Nyblom pleaded guilty in April to two counts of being a party to the crime of battery by a prisoner

17-year-old Rian Nyblom pled guilty to two counts of battery by a prisoner as a party to a crime.

The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison

A Lincoln County Judge ruled Wednesday that 16-year-old Javarius Hurd will remain in the adult court system

A judge on Tuesday ordered one of two inmates charged in connection with a Wisconsin youth prison counselor's death this summer to stand trial

A federal judge has rejected Republican legislators' calls to give counselors at Wisconsin's youth prison more leeway in controlling inmates after a counselor was killed in a fight at the facility this summer.

Gov. Tony Evers asked a federal judge Wednesday not to impose any changes at Wisconsin's youth prison after an inmate was accused of killing a counselor during a fight earlier this summer, insisting conditions at the prison have been slowly improving despite the death

According to prosecutors, a 16-year-old inmate punched Corey Proulx during a fight at the facility in northern Wisconsin in June, causing Proulx's head to hit the concrete pavement