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 ...
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 ...
Evers proposes closing 127-year-old Green Bay prison in $500M corrections reform plan
The plan includes converting juvenile facilities, restructuring security levels and expanding early release programs.
Green Bay brothers exonerated for 1987 homicide seek $2 million in compensation for wrongful convictions
Robert and David Bintz were convicted of homicide in 2000 but exonerated in 2024 when DNA evidence pointed to a new suspect.
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 Green Bay Correctional ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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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.
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.
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Evers proposes closing 127-year-old Green Bay prison in $500M corrections reform plan
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.“ ...