Construction bids for a planned 71,000-square-foot juvenile correctional facility in Milwaukee are open. The state estimates construction costs at nearly $55 million with hopes of opening the ...

Milwaukee County has faced a shortage of correctional officers at both the jail and the Community Reintegration Center (CRC), and the county has responded with new incentives and pa increases.

A new law signed by Gov. Tony Evers on Friday will create a new youth prison in Milwaukee County, but the proposed location is facing pushback that could delay the long-overdue facility.

An inmate escaped the Marshall Sherrer Correctional Center near 14th and McKinley in Milwaukee.36-year-old Clemente Alexander is a minimum-security inmate. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections ...

The Milwaukee Common Council held a special meeting Friday morning, voting 11-1 in favor of a resolution that supports a 32-bed youth correctional facility on the city's northwest side.

A plan announced by Gov. Tony Evers earlier this week to build a juvenile correctional facility on Milwaukee’s north side has drawn opposition from residents, who say they weren’t given an ...

Milwaukee’s Common Council during a Friday special meeting voted 11-1 to support a new state youth correctional facility on the city’s northwest side.