Wisconsin’s coronavirus-related budget crunch will limit the state’s ability to find room for inmates in the state’s prisons, former Wisconsin Department of Corrections assistant deputy secretary Patrick Hughes wrote at the Badger Institute.

“If new prison construction were ever a viable option for addressing longstanding overcrowding, fiscal woes arising from the pandemic make that increasingly untenable,” Hughes wrote.

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