A major overhaul of
Wisconsin's prison system
got off the starting blocks
this week when the
State Building Commission
voted to approve
$15 million
to start the planning phase.
Corrections has been in disarray
under many governors
and Gov. Evers
when he first ran
against Gov. Walker
what is that
eight years ago now?
Ran on
corrections reform
and has done
really nothing.
And now all of a sudden
in 2025
budgetary cycle
he comes out
with a proposal
and he's kind of like
shoving it down our throats
and he didn't
include anybody
in this proposal.
There was things
in the governor's
proposal that I think
every one of us
could have gotten behind
because I think a lot of
some of his ideas
were positive.
That's why I think
it would have been nice
to include everyone.
So this isn't a
this doesn't have to be
a Democrat
or a Republican idea.
Prison reform
across the United States
has been very nonpartisan.
We can all work
towards the same ideas.
But when you take
when you give
somebody a proposal and say
take it or leave it
here it is.
This is what we're
moving forward with
and especially
when it's not even
a good proposal.
How do you think
the other sides
are going to react?