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| Staff growth lags behind inmate increase at Lincoln Hills |
| By jsonline.com- Jason Stein |
| Published: 12/28/2015 |
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Madison— The growth in guards and staff at a troubled state prison for youth has not kept up with the sharp increase in inmates over the past four years, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review has found. Since 2010, the number of juvenile offenders at Lincoln Hills School for Boys in Irma and its on-site sister school for girls has risen by 69%, while staffing has risen by only 44%, according to figures from the Legislature's budget office and the state Department of Corrections. That change flows out of decisions to consolidate nearly all the inmates tried as juveniles and held by the State of Wisconsin into a single campus 30 miles north of Wausau. This month, dozens of state and federal agents and attorneys descended on the prison investigating crimes at the prison campus in Irma from child abuse to the intimidation of witnesses. In one incident, an offender had toes damaged so badly by a slamming metal door that they had to be amputated. Read More. |
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