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In 2025, Gov. Tony Evers introduced a plan that, among other things, would turn Waupun Correctional Institution into a state-of-the-art vocational facility.
The proposal also included closing the Green Bay Correctional Institution and removing young people from the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile correctional facilities, which were subject to a 2018 class-action lawsuit to address harmful conditions…