“We’re spending more money to lock people up than we are on the university system in our state,” Mahlon Mitchell, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and state president for the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, said in a Jan. 26 tweet. We checked his claim that the state is spending more on the state Department of Corrections than on the University of Wisconsin’s 26-campus system. Mitchell’s campaign cited an article from the Wisconsin Budget Project. 
Does Wisconsin spend more on prisons than on the UW system?
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