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(WFRV) – Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced that his administration is taking a major step toward closing the Green Bay Correctional Institution (GBCI) as part of a larger plan to modernize the state’s correctional system.
Evers said he will ask the State Building Commission to release $15 million from the 2025–27 bipartisan state budget to begin planning and design work on several Department of Corrections (DOC) projects that will ultimately make it possible to shut down the more than 130-year-old Green Bay facility.
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“Wisconsin is already years behind in modernizing corrections and reforming our justice system like so many red and blue states have,” Evers said. “Failing to release this investment will only delay our work and these projects and, ultimately, delay the closure of GBCI — which has long been a bipartisan goal.”…