Walker proposes more staff at troubled Lincoln Hills prison

Gov. Scott Walker isn't calling for closing the troubled Lincoln Hills juvenile prison in central Wisconsin.    Instead, Walker is proposing to hire eight new counselors to help meet staff-to-inmate ratios mandated by the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. Even with the new staffers, the prison in Irma would still need about 50 more positions to comply with the act.     He's also calling for creating nine new nurse positions to distribute inmate medication at the prison and 3.25 positions to expand mental health services for the prison's female wing.      The prison is the subject of two federal lawsuits alleging misconduct by guards and an ongoing Federal Bureau of Investigation probe.


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