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Crime and Courts: Will Walker try to privatize prisons?

With all the talk about slashing government spending, you?d think the Department of Corrections would be part of the conversation. But Gov. Scott Walker has had little to say about the department, which at $2.5 billion was the third largest expenditure in the 2009-11 budget.

Quoted: Walter Dickey, UW-Madison law professor and former secretary of the Department of Corrections