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Wednesday 6/26/24: training & retaining corrections officers, trauma-informed health care, summer dining, Family Recipes

Today on Lake Effect, we explore some of the challenges of hiring and retaining corrections officers at Wisconsin prisons. We learn what’s being done to prioritize healing from trauma after an injury caused by violence. We look at some of the best summer dining destinations. Plus, Family Recipes shares a recipe for a traditional Polish holiday pastry.

Guests:

  • Wanda Berturm, Prison Policy Initiative
  • Colleen Trevino, nurse practitioner & director of the Trauma Quality of Life Clinic
  • Ann Christenson, Dining Editor at Milwaukee Magazine
  • Ewa Barczy, former director of the UWM Libraries; Neal Pease, emeritus professor of history at UW-Milwaukee