Tony Evers recommended a $325-million “domino” plan to close the Green Bay prison, turn the Waupun prison into a medium-security job training center, and upgrade and restructure other institutions statewide. Although Republican legislators inserted a requirement that Green Bay close by 2029 into the new state budget, a frustrated Evers vetoed that provision. "Green Bay Correctional will close,” Evers told a Green Bay reporter this summer. Republican Rep. David Steffen, who has been working on options to closing the Green Bay prison for years, criticized the veto. First-term Democratic Sen. Jamie Wall, of Green Bay, whose father worked at the prison for 34 years, said the final budget deal didn’t include prison reforms.