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| Number of women prisoners up in Wisconsin |
| By thonline.com |
| Published: 05/18/2015 |
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MADISON, Wis. -- The Legislature's finance committee is set to decide this week how to handle the state's growing number of women prisoners after forecasts show the population likely will grow faster than Gov. Scott Walker anticipated in his budget proposal. The women's population dropped from 2008 to 2012, falling from a daily average of 1,339 to 1,170. The decline pushed the state Department of Corrections to convert a women's prison in Waupun to a men's facility in 2011. But the female inmate population has crept back up to a daily average of 1,317 inmates this past year, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau noted in a report released late Thursday. Walker's administration estimated as it was drafting his 2015-17 budget that the population would stand at 1,417 inmates in fiscal year 2016-17. Those estimates were based on population data through July 14. Read More. |
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