Wisconsin to Close 2 Juvenile Detention Centers Dogged by Abuse Charges [jjie.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/5/1812:00 PM

Reform advocates declared victory today after Wisconsin agreed to shutter two troubled detention centers and take steps advocates hope will drag its juvenile justice system into the 21st century.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced today that his administration will close the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and the Copper Lake School for Girls and build at least five new detention centers that will “align with nationally recognized best practices.”

The two correctional facilities had become for many juvenile justice advocates the symbol of everything that could go wrong in a state system, with allegations of overcrowding, systemic abuse and near-Victorian squalor over nearly a decade.

[For more on this story by, Bill Myers go to http://jjie.org/2018/01/04/wis...ed-by-abuse-charges/]

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