The ACLU today asked a federal judge to halt the state's "excessive" use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and physical restraints at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake youth prisons in northern Wisconsin.
The motion for a preliminary judgment seeks to limit the use of all three to "rare and temporary responses to prevent imminent and serious physical harm to persons."
A Department of Correctio...
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