Madison, Wis. (AP) – Demon Evers’S plan to flood Wheahaul, which includes closing the prison built with BipArtisan rules despite complaints from concerned workers.
The Bipartisan Subcommittee of the State Building Commission was authorized to spend $15 million to continue planning the facial proposals. The full construction commission, expected seats, are expected to light the greenback temporarily on Tuesday.
Evers in February presented his plan as the best and only way to deal with the state’s aging population. Problems in the LockUps have included death threats, attacks on workers, foreclosures, lawsuits, federal investigations, criminal charges against workers, and cancellation of maintenance costs.
Republicans have opposed parts of the plan that would reduce the overall capacity of the state prison system by 700 beds and increase the number of felons who can be released on probation. The GOP-sale legislature called to close the troubled green-green prison by 2029, but sellers revealed that provision earlier this year and said it could not be done without his entire plan.
The Building Commission’s approval Tuesday to spend $15 on planning money will begin that process.
Republican members of the Building Commission complained that Evers was plowing ahead without considering other ideas or concerns they were making GOP complaints. Republican State Sen. Andre Jacque has refused to reduce the number of beds in the prison system that he says is “actually unsafe.”
“We’ve all fought for solutions and we would have been happy to sit down with the governor and work on a great reform plan,” said Republican State Sen. Mary Felzkowski. “We could work together to do this but the governor said no.”
After the positive vote to move forward, Jacque said that the Republicans said they did not want to stand in the way of moving forward but he hoped that Evers would have more discussions about the concerns.
Corrections Secretary Jared Hoy told Jacque that planning permission is needed to stop the push to close the Green Bay prison, Republicans supported.
The entire program, once fully completed, would take six years to complete and likely cost about $1 billion. The Evers are not seeking a third name next year, so it will be up to the next governor to continue his plan or go a different route.
The majority proposal begins by closing the troubled Lincoln Hills and Cooper Lake Juenilectional Facilities in northern Wisconsin, and building a new one near Madison on the site of a minimum security prison. The Lincoln Hills Campus will then be converted into a former maximum security prison. The Green Bay Penitentiary, built in 1898, was to be closed.
The plan also proposes converting the old state prison, built in Waupun in 1851, from a maximum security prison to a medium security facility focused on job training. The Stanley Correctional Center was to be converted from a high-security prison to another and Hobart Prison was to be expanded to include 200 secure beds.
