Cruel and Unusual?
Pay-to-stay, other fees, can put jail inmates hundreds or thousands in debt
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In some Wisconsin counties, inmates pay an average of $390 a month in pay-to-stay fees; advocates say such fees can criminalize poverty.
Cruel and Unusual?
Hard road ahead for Gov. Tony Evers’ promise to slash Wisconsin prison population
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The Democrat’s goal to reduce incarceration by 50 percent faces numerous hurdles; his own 2019-21 budget proposal calls for increasing prison beds.
Cruel and Unusual?
Wisconsin’s high supervision rate can cause — rather than prevent — longer incarceration, studies show
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Supervision time in Wisconsin is third-longest in the U.S., meaning more chances for revocations and increased prison populations.
Precious Lives
What role did trauma-informed care play in alleged juvenile prison abuse?
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Critics charge that a trauma-informed care approach led to security breakdowns at Wisconsin’s two juvenile prisons; advocates say both facilities failed to fully implement the program