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La Tonya Johnson: “The cost of running the facility is about $30 million a…”

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

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State of Black Wisconsin 2026

Published | Video Starts at 10:57

And so that brought those daily rates down to $501 in physical year 2026, $758 in physical year 2027, 800% decrease, creating a major shortfall for the Department of Correction. But we're not going to complain about that shortfall because that was right. Still, The cost of running the facility is about $30 million a year, meaning the state has spent 150 since missing their deadline. Also in Lincoln Hills and Copper Lakes, it's at least two correctional. Juvenile correctional officers per every five juvenile. Something that's unheard of at Vail Phillips and other correctional facilities around the state now. (10:57–11:06)

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States the annual cost of running the facility and total expenditure since missing the deadline.

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