508. Lincoln Hills

Lincoln Hills in Irma is a youth prison. However the conditions in the prison makes any punishment worse than the courts decided. The question is whether it is the courts or the prison employees who decide on how severe a punishment should be. In Wisconsin it is the prison employees. In the rest of the civilized world it is the courts.

It cannot be fun to be there as a teenager being the victim of punishments decided by a random prison ward.

Sources:

• Crisis at Lincoln Hills juvenile prison years in the making (JS Online)
• Lincoln Hills inmate: Guards ‘treat the kids there like dogs’ ( Madison)