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Prison Changes to Be Made in Effort to Optimize Use

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The Wisconsin Prison built to house the state’s toughest prisoners has never filled all its beds. Now the Department of Corrections is looking for ways to transform 100 empty cells at the former Supermax into a standard maximum security prison. Gil Halsted reports…

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