Wisconsin's Department of Corrections will build two new juvenile detention facilities in Milwaukee and Outagamie counties to house serious juvenile offenders after the state's troubled youth prison closes, Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday.

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Some defendants spend longer in jail awaiting trial than their sentences ultimately call for.

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Eleven U.S. jail systems will receive millions of dollars in grants to overhaul operations in order to reduce their overall inmate populations — some by as much as one third, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Wednesday.

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Sixteen tablets have been installed in different rooms and cells at the Chippewa County jail at no cost to the local government.

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