DENEEN SMITH
In the Wisconsin judicial district made up of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties, Black men are more than 50 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison than white men accused of similar crimes, a study shows.
According to data included in a draft report for the Wisconsin Court System, the three-county Second Circuit District has among the stateâs worst disparities in sentencing outcomes when comparing white men charged with crimes to Black and Hispanic men.
HUDSON: We re going to kill you through incarceration. We re going to kill you by sucking the very life out of you through incarceration, through the oppression of incarceration, through putting you in an environment where hope is around you, but not in you. That s what life without the possibility of parole says. As the inmate population has exploded in the U.S., so, too, has the number of people facing life imprisonment.According to a new study by the Sentencing Project, one in seven U.S.
Charges: Fugitive led police on 100 mph chase in stolen vehicle, jumped 35 feet from bridge to escape
He was arrested later after he was spotted by a security guard.
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A fugitive from Wisconsin led Minnesota deputies on a 100 mph chase in a stolen vehicle, continuing even after his tires had been punctured, and then jumped from a bridge over the St. Louis River to evade capture, according to charges.
The dramatic chase unfolded on the evening of Feb. 17, starting in Moose Lake, Carlton County, when a vehicle owner reported their car being stolen outside of Poor Gary s Pizza.
Deputies on the lookout for the stolen vehicle spotted it being driven northbound on I-35 a short time later, pulled alongside it, and snapped a photo of the driver before activating their emergency lights and sirens.
Oakhill Correctional Institution in Fitchburg. STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
A correctional officer at a state prison in Fitchburg was charged Thursday with smuggling contraband into prison for sale and with sexual assault for an alleged relationship with her inmate business partner, court records state.
A criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court alleges Mariah S. Krienke, 36, of Janesville, brought cellphones, chewing tobacco, food and nutritional supplements into Oakhill Correctional Institution to be sold for her by an inmate, with Krienke and the inmate splitting the proceeds.
The scheme, which several inmates interviewed by police said they were aware of, was discovered by Oakhill officials after they received an anonymous tip that an inmate had a cellphone, which is prohibited at the minimum-security prison.
Sweeping reforms would close youth prisons and end Serious Juvenile Offender Program. //end headline wrapper ?>Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School. Photo from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
Offenders who are 17 years old wouldn’t be automatically treated as adults in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system under a proposal by Gov.
That is one piece of Evers’ proposed state budget, which includes an overhaul to the state’s criminal justice system that has several changes to how youth are sentenced and receive treatment.
“Our justice system has put a strain on our state both in terms of costs for corrections and lack of investment in rehabilitation, treatment, and alternatives to incarceration,” Evers said during his budget address Tuesday. “We can’t keep throwing taxpayer dollars into a system that doesn’t help our state or our people thrive.”