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Milwaukee Co. Board Withdraws Juveniles From Lincoln Hills

The Milwaukee County Board unanimously set in motion plans Thursday for removing nearly 170 county youth from a state juvenile prison in Lincoln county. They will be placed in secure detention centers in Milwaukee.

The board declared a "state of emergency" for county teenagers at Lincoln Hills School for boys and the adjacent Copper Lake School for girls at Irma.

County Circuit Chief Judge Maxine White, urged the county Delinquency and Court Services Division to immediately send a team of human service workers and other staff to the prison. The team would advocate for county teenagers, begin preparing transition plans for each one.

Concern for safety of the youth at the state-run prison was prompted by an ongoing federal and state investigation into allegations of abuse, neglect, sexual assault and excessive use of force.

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