Judge orders changes in treatment of Wisconsin youth inmates

A federal injunction requires the state to sharply reduce use of solitary confinement and pepper spray at Wisconsin’s juvenile prisons. Judge James Peterson ruled last month that those practices are unconstitutional as practiced at the Lincoln Hills-Copper Lake facility north of Wausau. The action is in response to a federal court lawsuit against the state […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

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No ruling on sequestering ‘Slender Man’ juries

A Waukesha County judge is expected to decide in the next week or two whether to require juries in Slender Man trials to be sequestered. At a Monday hearing, attorneys representing Morgan Geyser argued that her case will require jurors who don’t go home at night during her trial, so that they don’t hear or […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

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Wisconsin puts release of voter data on hold

State election officials say they have been asked by the federal government not to hand over voter data for the time being. Wisconsin Election Commission administrator Mike Haas had previously said the state would make a limited amount of voter data available, if the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity paid a required $12,500 fee […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

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