Evers asks judge to remove restrictions on Lincoln Hills youth prison
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers is asking a federal judge to lift restrictions on the state's corrections department that were put in place nearly a decade ago after inmates at the state's youth prison were subjected to excessive use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and shackles.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson in 2017 put Wisconsin corrections officials under a corrective plan known as a consent decree that outlines how prison guards must handle inmates at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls in Irma.
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