People locked up in Wisconsin prisons now having expanded reading options, after prison officials reached an agreement with Wisconsin Books to Prisoners.

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Wisconsin's next governor will oversee Wisconsin's Department of Corrections, one of the state's largest agencies with more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget or roughly $1.8 billion.

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At this time of year, millions of monarch butterflies are beginning their 3,000 mile migration to Mexico. And some of them got a unique start — growing up within the walls of a Wisconsin prison.

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A Dane County judge says Wisconsin's Department of Corrections is complying with a 2025 ruling that ordered the prison system to implement a program for incarcerated moms and their infants.

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Wisconsin governors have the power to shorten criminal sentences. But the last governor to use that power was Republican Tommy Thompson, who left office in 2001.

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The Ostara Initiative eventually wants to build a mother-baby house where pregnant women from jails, community corrections or the state prison could maintain custody of their infants.

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