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1 week ago | 
civicmedia.us | Addie Costello |Jimmie Kaska |Adam Hess |Michael Kommer
Wisconsin prisoners have struggled to connect with loved ones for weeks and even months as a state contractor fails to keep up with increasing demand for its call and messaging services. The Department of Corrections last year began working with Texas-based ICSolutions, the prison system’s phone provider, to make electronic tablets free for every state prisoner. The state allocated $2.5 million to cover some of the cost.
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1 week ago | 
wpr.org | Addie Costello
Wisconsin prisoners have struggled to connect with loved ones for weeks and even months as a state contractor fails to keep up with increasing demand for its call and messaging services. The Department of Corrections last year began working with Texas-based ICSolutions, the prison system's phone provider, to make electronic tablets free for every state prisoner. The state allocated $2.5 million to cover some of the cost.
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1 month ago | 
wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello
Reading Time: 7 minutes Click here to read highlights from the storyYahara House, part of the nonprofit Journey Mental Health Center, is a community mental health program focused on building relationships and job opportunities. Its clubhouse model reduces hospitalizations and boosts employment in adults with serious mental illnesses, experts and advocates say. Yahara House is one of just seven clubhouses in the state and just three with international accreditation.
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2 months ago | 
madison.com | Addie Costello
Two women incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution have died following hospital stays that began Feb. 22. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has shared limited information about their deaths, frustrating family members and those locked up at the maximum- and medium-security women’s prison. Shawnee Reed, 36, died Feb. 23, a day after arriving at an area hospital.
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2 months ago | 
lakegenevanews.net | Addie Costello
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2 months ago | 
wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello
Reading Time: 4 minutes Click here to read highlights from the storyTwo women incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional Institution have died following hospital stays that began Feb. 22. Family members of both women say hospital staff linked the deaths to pneumonia. They said both women started mentioning health issues over the phone around a month ago. Corrections officials briefly locked down part of Taycheedah due to an increase in respiratory illnesses.
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2 months ago | 
apg-wi.com | Addie Costello
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s Madison office Tuesday to voice their concerns over potential cuts to Medicaid. The Republican-led Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income households. In Wisconsin, that includes programs such as BadgerCare Plus, which serves children, pregnant people and non-disabled adults, and long-term care programs for people with disabilities and seniors.
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2 months ago | 
civicmedia.us | Addie Costello |Phil Nee |Teri Barr |Adam Hess
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers continue to dig in their heels during a years-long tug-of-war over how regulators should hold property owners liable for contamination caused by “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. They are pushing competing proposals to protect so-called innocent landowners — those who didn’t knowingly cause their PFAS pollution — from liability under Wisconsin’s decades-old environmental cleanup law.
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2 months ago | 
wpr.org | Addie Costello
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's Madison office Tuesday to voice their concerns over potential cuts to Medicaid. The Republican-led Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income households. In Wisconsin, that includes programs like BadgerCare Plus, which serves children, pregnant people and non-disabled adults, and long-term care programs for people with disabilities and seniors.
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2 months ago | 
wisconsinwatch.org | Addie Costello
Reading Time: 2 minutes Addie Costello here, Wisconsin Watch reporter and WPR investigative reporting fellow. Most of my reporting focuses on issues related to health care, and my editor asked me to write a bit about how tips have shaped my stories. First, you have to know that I have an unbreakable phone pacing habit. My family mocks the little circles I make — in and out of the kitchen and up and down the living room — when I get a call.
