Prison

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.

A new study highlights the high price of incarceration, and says the annual total cost to families of Americans behind bars is nearly $350 billion

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

The Wisconsin Innocence Project is ending the year with some key victories including helping with the release of two men who each spent decades in prison but the wins highlight a long-standing systemic problem

Hundreds of people from across Michigan gathered in Lansing this week, urging House Speaker Joe Tate, D-Detroit and Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids, to advance the Second Look Sentencing Act to improve prison safety

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has agreed to provide more help to hearing-impaired inmates as part of a settlement with federal investigators.

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

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former prison guards in Wisconsin and family members of people incarcerated there are urging lawmakers fix what they're calling systemic problems in the state’s prisons. Witnesses at a legislative hearing Tuesday detailed allegations of sexual harassment by supervisors, retaliation against guards and inmate abuse going back years.

State Department of Corrections spokesperson Beth Hardtke said the fight happened Monday evening at the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake Schools, the state's youth prison in Irma.

With a “Shawshank Redemption”-style stone exterior and high castle-like guard towers, Wisconsin's oldest prison, built in the 1850s, has long been a target for closure amid concerns about deterioration, extended lockdowns and staffing shortfalls