No matter how hardline you are on law and order, we can all agree that prisons should not be literal hellholes. But in the 19th century, that's what many of them were. From solitary confinement to ...

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When a prison built in the 1800s is still housing people in 2025 with the same aging infrastructure, we have to be honest, the system is broken. Wisconsin’s prisons have been in crisis for years, and ...