MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A bill has been crafted to close Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison.
The State Assembly’s measure calls for shutting down the existing location in Irma by mid-2020.
Serious offenders would move to new or expanded state facilities, while counties would house the rest in new or retrofitted facilities.
The bill’s fate in the Senate remains unclear.
Federal investigators have spent the past few years looking into allegations of inmate abuse at the current facility.
