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Tony Evers is proposing to spend $45.8 million on a new juvenile facility in Milwaukee, budget documents show.
“The facility in this request will assist DOC (Department of Corrections) with working towards meeting the requirements of Act 185 and Act 8, which were created with the intent of eventually converting Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools buildings into adult facilities,” the proposed budget says.
Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake are the state’s secure juvenile prisons.
The proposal is part of the proposed 2021-23 state capital budget. The governor recommended a total of $119.1 million in DOC capital spending.
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The West Salem man, convicted for the 2016 murder of his wife, wants a new trial
An attorney for Todd Kendhammer filed a motion for post-conviction relief
February 16, 2021 6:14 PM Amy DuPont
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) The West Salem man, convicted for the 2016 murder of his wife, wants a new trial An attorney for Todd Kendhammer filed a motion for post-conviction relief.
The 228 page document, filed in La Crosse County, asks the court to vacate Kendhammer’s conviction and sentencing. The now 50-year old is serving a life sentence with the possibility of release after 30 year for the homicide of his wife Barbara.
‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate
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February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
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Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Evers set a goal to cut the state’s prison population in half. But 23 state prisons still exceed their designed capacity.