Critics say the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is limiting prisoner access to information while wider entry points for drugs remain open.
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Attorney William Sulton advocates for Milwaukee’s most vulnerable
Milwaukee attorney William Sulton has been in the news for his work with the troubled Social Development Commission. His mission is to represent those considered to be the least, the last or the left behind.
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Milwaukee weighs in on how to decrease youth violence
In response to what he described as increased brazenness among teens using firearms to steal property and commit other violent crimes, Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman has called on parents and others in the community to intervene.
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DOJ reaches agreement with Wisconsin sheriff’s office to improve services for people who don’t speak English
The Dane County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin has agreed to make a series of reforms meant to ensure that residents who speak little or no English can get the services they need.
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Autopsy determines man killed at Green Bay Correctional Institution was strangled
An inmate found dead at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in northeastern Wisconsin was strangled, investigators said.
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Short on fixes for prison problems, Wisconsin weighs independent oversight
Wisconsin prisoner rights advocates are calling for the creation of an independent ombudsman to investigate concerns inside prisons and to study solutions.
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‘A shoot can be legal. That doesn’t mean it was necessary.’ Fatal police encounters rise in Wisconsin
Deadly police encounters in Wisconsin were up last year and are on track this year to exceed the modern record of 26 deaths set in 2017.
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Details of some fatal Wisconsin police shootings remain secret
In two police shootings in the past year reviewed by Wisconsin Watch, state and local agencies used potential threats to involved officers as justification to indefinitely withhold the names of officers involved.
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As Wisconsin legislators tinker with prison reform, a Milwaukee man continues doing ‘dead time’
Gawaine Edwards says he’s stuck in prison doing “dead time.” He can’t be released for another 12 years because he committed his crime after the enactment of Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing law.
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Judge rejects GOP call to give Wisconsin youth prison counselors more freedom to punish inmates
A federal judge has rejected Republican legislators’ calls to give counselors at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison more leeway in controlling and punishing inmates after a counselor was killed during a fight at the facility this summer.
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Wisconsin’s inmate population swells as other states limit incarceration and close prisons
Wisconsin’s prison population has swelled significantly since dipping during the pandemic, complicating efforts to address dangerous conditions.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers urges federal judge not to make changes at youth prison following counselor death
Gov. Tony Evers asked a federal judge Wednesday not to impose any changes at Wisconsin’s youth prison after an inmate was accused of killing a counselor during a fight earlier this summer, insisting conditions at the prison have been slowly improving despite the death. Evers, a Democrat, said in the letter to James Peterson, chief judge for […]