Justice

At issue is a six-year-old state law which gives the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance the final say about whether to approval settlements in civil lawsuits prosecuted by state’s attorney general.

The heads of the Universities of Wisconsin system and the state Department of Corrections faced critical questions from Republican state lawmakers Tuesday over requests for new state funding.

The boy previously seemed to be improving, and UW health officials announced in mid-January that he had been upgraded to good condition. Since then, things have taken a turn for the worse.

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed likely to rule in favor of the charitable arm of the Catholic Diocese in Superior, which is arguing it was wrongly denied a religious exemption from paying state unemployment tax.

Attorney Jarrett Adams was denied compensation for the 7 years spent in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Unlike his clients, he had time on his side.

In 2016, Wisconsin’s neighboring state created the first in-prison trade school, and it has since been replicated across the nation. Gov. Tony Evers wants to turn Waupaun’s prison into a similar facility.

A new initiative in Milwaukee County provides temporary housing and supportive services for people who were recently incarcerated.

Wisconsin is part of seven of the 130-plus lawsuits against the Trump administration, the state Department of Justice says.

Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections estimates the changes could lead to an increase in the state’s prison population of 4,600 people.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is weighing whether thousands of corrections workers should be able to sue as a group in a dispute over pay.