A new report finds the Green Bay Correctional Institution is “beyond repair.”
Its conclusion is the 122-year-old facility should be shut down. State Representative David Steffen has been advocating that fate for the maximum-security prison. Steffen says GBCI has failed all five of the major building code and construction codes relating to prisons.
He says he’d like to see Green Bay inmates relocated to Stanley Correctional, which would become a maximum-security facility. Stanley’s inmates would join others at two minimum security prison to be built near Milwaukee. A total of 368 jobs would be lost by closing the aging building, but a study two years ago found that redeveloping the site could create a thousand jobs and one million dollars in annual tax revenue.
