I was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2016, and from the day I took office, I heard a lot about criminal justice reform: the need to allow for pardons and to expunge low-offense criminal records, the need to move 17-year-olds back to juvenile court, and the need to improve conditions at Lincoln Hills School, a juvenile corrections facility in northern Wisconsin. Since then, little action has been taken. Of all your tax dollars that Wisconsin collects, 7% goes to locking up offenders. By comparison, 6% goes to the UW System. Do we really want to spend more money on prisons than on universities? My answer is no.