After Green Bay Correctional closure, staff would be eligible to continue to work for Department of Corrections.

Gov. Tony Evers' plan to close the decrepit Green Bay prison and rebuild the Waupun prison hinges on closing the troubled ...

The plan would complete a Dane County youth facility, convert Lincoln Hills from juveniles to adults and renovate Waupun’s troubled prison.

A correctional officer was seriously burned July 18, 2016, after a prisoner at Green Bay Correctional Institution threw a pot ...

Nothing would be off the table for future negotiations, said Rep. David Steffen, in what will be a protracted debate.

When it comes to reshaping Wisconsin's prisons, there are two ideas just about everyone seems to support. However, beyond closing Green Bay Correctional Institution and repurposing ...

Evers' proposal would spend $245.3 million to convert Waupun's prison into a medium-security institution that would become ...

Wisconsin's second-oldest prison that was built in the 1800s would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers.

Current and former inmates, plus Republican lawmakers, expressed excitement Monday about the possibility of Green Bay Correctional closing. A few remain skeptical that it will come to fruition.

State Republicans in the Green Bay area are voicing support for Governor Tony Evers' plan to permanently close Green Bay ...

Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard, chair of the Senate judiciary committee, praised Evers for proposing the closure of the 127-year-old prison in Green Bay. But he questioned the totality of the plan.“ ...

Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his biennial budget. The plan calls for closing the prison in Green Bay and ...