MADISON, Wis. - A federal investigation into alleged civil rights violations at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison has ended without charges, prosecutors announced Friday. The attorney’s office said in a statement that prosecutors faced a heavy burden in proving that staff members wilfully used more force than necessary. “In this instance, there was insufficient evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt a violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes.” Problems at the youth prison outside Irma in northern Wisconsin have been building for years. Workers say conditions got worse in 2011 when two juvenile prisons near Milwaukee closed and teens were consolidated at the facility. “When we visited the (youth prison) two years ago, that was one of the things they said, they felt like they were walking on eggshells.

Source: thestar April 12, 2019 22:55 UTC