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La Tonya Johnson: “Jfc passed daily rates in the last legislative budget to pay…”

Featuring: La Tonya Johnson, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 6

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State of Black Wisconsin 2026

Published | Video Starts at 09:57

In the facility designed to house over 500 individuals, I believe it was 80 roughly between 8088 for the boys and 1010 individuals for the girls. So Milwaukee and Dane county have the majority of youth housed at the facility. Jfc passed daily rates in the last legislative budget to pay $2,501 in 2026 per juvenile offender per day. So let's get that number right and $2,758 per day in 2026 2027, Governor Evers used his veto pin, his partial veto pin and crossed out the two. Yay Governor Evers. (09:57–10:18)

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States the daily rate set by the Joint Finance Committee for juvenile offenders in 2026.

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