Green Bay Correction faces calls for closure

Governor's proposal to close Green Bay Correctional will certainly change in Legislature, Rep. Steffen says
Nothing would be off the table for future negotiations, said Rep. David Steffen, in what will be a protracted debate.
Tony Evers will seek a $500 million prison overhaul and the closing of Green Bay Correctional
Gov. Tony Evers' plan to close the decrepit Green Bay prison and rebuild the Waupun prison hinges on closing the troubled Lincoln Hills youth campus.
Tony Evers to propose $500 million prison overhaul, closing Green Bay facility by 2029
The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison.
Green Bay Correctional Institution: Timeline of attacks on guards, prisoner deaths, lockdown
A correctional officer was seriously burned July 18, 2016, after a prisoner at Green Bay Correctional Institution threw a pot of scalding water in his face. The attack came weeks after two correctional officers were stabbed and beaten by a prisoner at the facility.
Wisconsin Gov. Evers proposes closing 19th-century prison, overhauling corrections system
Wisconsin's second-oldest prison that was built in the 1800s would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers.
'First step': Gov. Evers' plan to close Green Bay prison draws local support
Current and former inmates, plus Republican lawmakers, expressed excitement Monday about the possibility of Green Bay Correctional closing. A few remain skeptical that it will come to fruition.
Green Bay prison would close, Waupun renovated under Gov. Tony Evers' budget
Evers' proposal would spend $245.3 million to convert Waupun's prison into a medium-security institution that would become the state's first "vocational village" facility.
Wisconsin governor floats plan to close 19th-century prison and overhaul corrections system
Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison that was built in the 1800s would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Governor Tony Evers.
Sanger B. Powers expansion part of governor's proposal to close Green Bay Correctional Institution
The governor announced Sunday a sweeping prison reform plan intended to support the closure of the Correctional Institution.
Gov. Evers proposes prison reform programs, plan to close Green Bay prison
Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his biennial budget. The plan calls for closing the prison in Green Bay and making major renovations at Waupun's prison.
Governor's prison plan is ambitious to some, but families of prisoners who died say it doesn't go far enough
"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.
Jim Rafter, a vocal advocate for the Green Bay Correctional's proposed closure, voices excitement, caution
The Allouez village president is anxious that politics could still stand in the way of the institution closing despite local ...