Sentences with phrase «troubled youth prison»

«With campaign season right around the corner, it'll be interesting to see what Gov. Walker changes his mind about next,» Hintz said, referring to Walker's recent proposal to move juvenile inmates out of a troubled youth prison in Irma and open smaller facilities around the state, a plan long - proposed by Democrats.

Wisconsin's troubled youth prison would close by mid-2020 and its inmates would move into new or retrofitted prison that could be built around the state, under a bipartisan bill released on Tuesday.

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The highlight of his presentation was a proposal to set up a program aimed at keeping troubled youth ages 16 and 17 out of the pipeline that funnels them to prison.

Young said she agrees «that juveniles who commit serious crimes should be in separate secure facilities and not adult prisons, and that troubled youth should have counseling to get them on the straight and narrow.