Lawmakers of both parties supported the expansion.
âThis is a strong positive step towards the closing of Lincoln Hills,â said Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, who serves as budget committee co-chair. âTodayâs action is very positive. Itâs a step in the right direction.â
Expanding the Mendota facility could help reduce the number of juveniles sent to Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.
âThis will be the first time in Wisconsinâs history that we have a facility like that that will be able to help women and young girls,â said Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Irma, a budget committee member.
âI think that investing in this now will not only save the state taxpayers money, which is very important, but more important and the ultimate goal of this is to give our youth, some whoâve had the most horrific starts in their lives, it will give them a chance and an opportunity to come back and hopefully have a happy, healthy and productive life as
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The Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake juvenile prisons in Lincoln County were set to close this year under a law passed in 2018.
That deadline won’t be met.
The biggest issue has been where to put the children.
Ahead of last week’s Joint Committee on Finance budget hearing WXPR asked lawmakers about where things stand.
Rep. Evan Goyke (D- Milwaukee) said legislation that would create new facilities have been sitting in the JCF for almost two years.
“You can’t just move the kids and put them in a hotel, you have to have the appropriate replacement facility open and ready to go. We could do that now. We could pass the funding for the facility in Madison and, in this budget, we could pass the funding for the remaining alternatives,” said Goyke. “While we won’t make the date this summer, the sooner we approve those replacement facilities the sooner that facility in Lincoln County closes.”
Paranormal investigator claims to communicate with the SPIRIT of serial killer Ed Gein who speaks about the skin suit he made from corpses which inspired Silence of the Lambs and Psycho
Steve Shippy, a paranormal investigator and documentary filmmaker, allegedly successfully talked with the dead serial killer s spirit
The two-hour Discovery+ special titled Ed Gein: The Real Psycho that airs Friday
Gein, who was known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was a murderer and body snatcher who exhumed corpses from graveyards
In the documentary, Shippy partners with psychic medium Cindy Kaza to question Gein and his mom, Augusta Wilhelmine Gein, about their relationship
THE REAL PSYCHO
Killer Ed Gein made nipple belts & skull bowls from corpses & murdered women to make skin suit to honour his dead mum
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WHEN police raided Ed Gein’s remote farmhouse in search of a missing shop owner, they could never have imagined the horrors they were about to uncover.
As well as the body of Bernice Worden - decapitated, strung up and gutted “like a deer” - they discovered a hoard of macabre keepsakes, from bowls made from human skulls to a belt made from female nipples and a lampshade covered with a face.