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Incarceration Challenges In Wisconsin

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In this May 20, 2010, file photo some youths are seen playing basketball through bars on a window at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Ethan Allen School in Wales, Wis. If you’re the parent of a child who had been sentenced to the Ethan Allen School, a detention facility for boys, you’ll have to travel a lot farther to visit them. The Wisconsin budget that takes effect July 1, 1011, shuts down the school and moves all the inmates to Lincoln Hills School in Lincoln County in far northern Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Incarceration in America and Wisconsin is the focus of an exhibit currently on display in Stevens Point. The artist and architect behind the work joins us to share what he learned and what inspired these creations. Then we talk with a former prosecutor and law professor to discuss the challenges and changes we are seeing regarding incarceration in Wisconsin.

Episode Credits

  • Kate Archer Kent Host
  • Jana Rose Schleis Producer
  • Mark Osler Guest
  • Wes Janz Guest

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