The newly appointed Department of Corrections secretary saysstate prison costswill decrease by more than 50 million dollars over the next two years. But a DemocraticSenator from Milwaukee says that won’t happen unless the state spends more money on mental health and drugtreatment programs. Gil Halsted reports.
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