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’...
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