Zac Schultz:
Another big ticket item from the governor's budget that Republicans seem interested in is corrections. What needs to happen and will that be the capital budget? Is there going to be policy in the regular budget?

Speaker Robin Vos:
We probably won't do a lot of corrections reform inside the budget. It's a just a basic philosophical difference. Look, if somebody commits a serious crime and they are scheduled to be paroled, I want them to have some kind of worker training. I want them to have every opportunity to never return back to prison and turn their life around. That should be bipartisan. But I feel like under Gov. Evers plan, it's simply dumping a bunch of people outside the system and closing prisons to say that we just have too many people who are behind bars. I don't believe that. You go through a court process. You are heard by a jury. You're sentenced to 20 years in prison. You served 20 years, right? That's the way it should be. His plan just takes a bunch of people and pushes 'em out of the system 'cause we're overcrowded. Well, I don't want to just push them out because we're overcrowded. We should build a new prison. We should find a way to reform what we do. So that might take longer than this budget process to find a consensus. But now we're not going to adopt his policies.