Gov. Scott Walker appointed a new Department of Corrections secretary on Wednesday, the agency's third leader in less than three years as it struggles to recover from allegations of abuse at Wisconsin's youth prison.

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Anyone needing further proof of the need to reform Wisconsin's juvenile corrections system was given 18.9 million reasons last week.

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The state Department of Corrections reached an $18.9 million settlement Tuesday with a former youth prison inmate who suffered brain damage after she tried to hang herself in her cell.

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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says a plan for changes in confinement at the state's juvenile prisons will give the department time to train staff on the new policies.

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A man whose release from prison was ordered after 27 years behind bars remains in the Dane County Jail on a Department of Corrections hold.

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A 17-year-old boy who was an inmate at Wisconsin's embattled youth prison is suing the facility, alleging he suffered substantial physical and emotional abuse while there.

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Wisconsin prison officials defended the use of solitary confinement at the state's troubled youth prison, telling a legislative committee Tuesday that the facility is trying to minimize the practice but it's needed to bolster safety and security.

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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections will try to resell $37,000 of new furniture ordered by the state Parole Commission just days before the agency was targeted for elimination.

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A Wisconsin Department of Corrections says it is going to cancel or at least try to reduce the size of a $39,000 furniture order the Parole Commission completed a day before Gov. Scott Walker proposed eliminating it.

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A former Wisconsin youth prison inmate who was brain damaged in a suicide attempt alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that staff ignored warning signs and failed to prevent her from hanging herself, marking the second federal action in a week over the treatment of inmates at the prison.

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A state panel rejected former state Corrections secretary Ed Wall's appeal of his firing, saying he knowingly tried to evade Wisconsin's open records law.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said Monday it's possible that his office may charge one or more people in connection with alleged abuses against inmates at the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison.

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Two Milwaukee County supervisors are seeking outside investigations of deaths at the Milwaukee County Jail after four deaths have occurred since April.

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Wisconsin corrections officials want minors convicted in adult court to begin their sentences in a juvenile facility.

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The state Department of Corrections wants Gov. Scott Walker to spend millions of dollars in the next budget to add nurses and security staff at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison, but the new positions wouldn't be enough to satisfy federal law.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel has announced his plan to ask the Legislature for millions more dollars to hire more prosecutors throughout the state.

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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has ordered body cameras to be worn by security staff at a juvenile prison that's at the certain of a widening probe into alleged abuse by both guards and inmates.

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A former inmate can't sue the Department of Corrections over injuries he suffered when a foul ball hit him during a prison yard baseball game four years ago, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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By Mark Anderson Dolan Media Newswires MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Department of Commerce on Wednesday charged Eden Prairie-based Modify My Loan US LLC and its principals with allegedly defrauding about 200 homeowners through its loan modification business. The department said ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin could save at least $266 million a year by clamping down on fraud in public assistance programs, tweaking overtime policies and implementing efficiency ideas state agencies have been developing, according ...

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