Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard, chair of the Senate judiciary committee, praised Evers for proposing the closure of the 127-year-old prison in Green Bay. But he questioned the totality of the plan.“ ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his 2025-27 biennial budget. The sweeping plan calls for closing Green Bay Correctional Institution, converting Lincoln Hills & Copper ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his 2025-27 biennial budget. The sweeping plan calls for closing Green Bay Correctional Institution, converting Lincoln Hills ...

The plan will include tearing down the 127-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution and a massive renovation of the Waupun prison. The plan hinges on moving forward with delayed plans to ...

Wisconsin’s troubled maximum security prison in Green Bay would be shuttered, while the state’s more than 170-year-old prison in Waupun would be transformed into a “vocational village,” under a ...

MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers is proposing in his next two-year state budget a half of a billion dollar plan that would close a deteriorating 127-year-old state prison in Green Bay, rebuild another ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — The Cambria County prison will soon see 11 new hires as part of the fight against a national shortage of Correctional Officer employees. The Commissioners say the ...