MADISON (WORT) — The 2015 Dane County budget authorized $8 million for possible land acquisition for a new jail and to study alternatives to incarceration. On Tuesday, the Public Protection & Judiciary Committee convened once again to debate options for the jail. Activists from the Young, Gifted, and Black Coalition were there and so was WORT’s Antonio Marquez.
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