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Hunger Task Force gave out thousands of turkeys Friday afternoon in West Milwaukee. Food pantries from around Southeast Wisconsin picked up the turkeys and other items to make sure families have food ahead of the holidays. We got great stuff that can support a really nice healthy Thanksgiving meal, Julia Means, the Parish Nurse at Ebenezer Church of God in Christ, explained stanley website .She was just one of the 70 local food pantry coordinators who had her car filled with fro stanley cup zen turkeys and all the fixings.Means says a Thanksgiving meal is a way of bringing families together. And costs shouldn t stop that. We wanna be there to reunite families. Means says her pantry has a goal this season. Last month we served 188 families. And so this month we want to serve the same amount and we want to supply them with a turkey. The Hunger Task Force says this is the first holiday season in three years without the federal pandemic aid. Sherrie Tussler, the CEO of Hunger Task Force says t stanley cup hey re noticing the difference. The need is greater than it has been in a number of years, Tussler explains.Tussler says this distribution gets more food into the hands of people who need it. The problem of poverty isn t just concentrated in those low-income neighborhoods and so each of these groups serves a specific population and they do it really well. People get tearful, there is a range of emotions. But its definitely clear and visible that people are impacted Heidi Gould the director of the Jewish Community P Qjnx All lanes now open after fire closed I-41 South near Beloit Road& U+ Y- y r2 b; M5 p
MILWAUKEE 鈥?A years-long effort to close Lincoln Hills Juvenile Prison in northern Wisconsin faces another setback. The states goal is to replace it with a new youth de stanley cup tention facility in Milwaukee County, but a Republican leader says the Wisconsin Assembly wont approve funding until a site is selected.State and federal investigations several years ago at Lincoln Hills led to a scathing report detailing use-of-force violations at the youth prison. A Milwa stanley cup ukee man says his experience alone is enough reason to shutter the facility and offer troubled teens a fresh start in the city many call home.Roberto of Milwaukees south-side says he was just 13 years old when he was convicted of battery and sent to Lincoln Hills, the states highest security you stanley thermos th prison. We made a mistake and we were in Lincoln Hills to pay back our debt to society, but no one deserves to be treated like an animal like they treat you at Lincoln Hills, he said.Roberto claims his four years at Lincoln Hills more than a decade ago were filled with abuse at the hands of corrections officers. I was hit with a flashlight while handcuffed, I was like handcuffed and held down and assaulted by the staff members, he said. My first time being pepper sprayed by them, they did a silent entry, held me down and forced my mouth open and sprayed into my mouth. A lengthy investigation found three inmates were mistreated by corrections officers, violating their civil rights. The state agreed to pay victims $5 million in a s |
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