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Wisconsin lawmakers scrap plan for new youth prisons

by Associated Press
| February 12, 2020 11:10 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans on the Legislature's finance committee on Wednesday rejected a plan to build new institutions to replace Wisconsin's troubled youth prison, saying the state doesn't have the money for the facilities.

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