Joint Finance unanimously approves $66 million to expand Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center

The Joint Finance Committee today unanimously approved nearly $66 million to expand the Mendota Juvenile Justice Treatment Center, a key step in the process to close the state’s troubled youth prisons. Even with the move, the state still would need to construct a new facility planned for Milwaukee to house young offenders now at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in northern Wisconsin. Gov. Tony Evers’...