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RHINELANDER, WI (WSAU) — Seven people are accused of trafficking fentanyl in the Rhinelander area, according to the Oneida ...
Milwaukee County is on track to open a new $30 million youth correctional facility by the end of October this year. The facility, called a Secure Residential Care Center for Children and Youth ...
Oshkosh Correctional Institution mobile job lab aims to prep prisoners for jobs upon release 'This lab, and these types of interventions, are key to setting persons in our care up for success ...
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Recently, a brand new mobile job lab opened at the Oshkosh Correctional Institution, said officials with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC). According to a r… ...
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Jared Hoy, today announced his 2025-27 Executive Budget will propose making sweeping reforms to ...
The multi-tiered plan starts with finally closing the troubled Lincoln Hills and Cooper Lake juvenile correctional facilities in northern Wisconsin and building a new one near Madison at the site ...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wants to dedicate over $325 million of the state budget to updating aging correctional facilities. The plan he laid out Friday would end with the closure of Green Bay ...
The multi-tiered plan starts with finally closing the troubled Lincoln Hills and Cooper Lake juvenile correctional facilities in northern Wisconsin and building a new one near Madison at the site ...
According to a news release from the New Lisbon Police Department, the Juneau County Communication Center received a report of a suspicious individual in the Juneau County city of Elroy about 11: ...
A 10-day manhunt has been underway since Dec. 30 for Thew in connection with the deaths of Elizabeth Kolba, 33, and two girls, ages 12 and 13. On Friday, the New Lisbon Police Department announced ...
Police have identified a person of interest in the murders of a Wisconsin woman and two girls less than 24 hours after they were reported missing. Virgil Thew, 47, from New Lisbon in Juneau County ...
UPDATE at 5:00 p.m. CST on Jan. 9, 2025: New Lisbon Police confirm the details of Virgil Thew’s arrest. Around 11:51 a.m. on January 9, the Juneau County Communications Center got a call of a ...