Building Commission approves $348.1M for Lincoln Hills replacement, other projects.

Byline: Michaela Paukner, mpaukner@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Building Commission approved $348.1 million for projects across the state, including grant funds for Secure Residential Care Centers for Children and Youth to replace Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools.

The juvenile-detention centerd in northern Wisconsin have been the subject of years of guard-on-prisoner abuse allegations. Lawmakers passed a bill to close the prisons by January 2021, but a lack of funding pushed the closing date back six months to July 2021.

Thegrantsapproved by the Building Commissionon Thursday will pay for small, county-run centers in Brown, Dane, Milwaukee and Racine counties. The juvenile offenders at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake will be transferred to the county-run centers upon the prisons' closing.

Gov. Tony Evers said the...

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