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Month: December 2016

Crimeless Revocations, part 3: Racial Patterns

December 26, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Revocations, Wisconsin

Key findings: Of those leaving Wisconsin prisons for the first time,  Native American Indians have about a 30% higher rate of crimeless revocations than Whites, and Blacks about 20% higher (comparable to disparity ratios of 1.3 and 1.2) while Hispanic and Asian revocation rates are lower than White. For second and

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Crimeless Revocations, part 2

December 24, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Revocations, Wisconsin

Key findings In Wisconsin, an estimated  35% of first spells in prison and 50-75% of second or later spells are crimeless revocations, depending on the criteria used for “crimeless”. A careful comparison of prison records suggests that roughly a third of prison admissions with no new sentence may have anticipated

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Sitting in prison versus going through prison: interpreting prison statistics

December 23, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Wisconsin

There is a lot of confusion in understanding imprisonment data created by the failure to understand the difference between the characteristics of people sitting in prison at any one time (what are technically called the “stock”) and the characteristics of the people who have gone though prison (the flow). This

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How long do people stay in prison in Wisconsin?

December 22, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Wisconsin

It is important to understand how long people stay in prison as part of understanding revocations. The graph below shows how long people stay in prison across all admission types.  The vertical axis shows the cumulative percentage who have exited after the number of months on the horizontal axis. So,

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Sent Back: Crimeless Revocations part 1

December 18, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Revocations, Wisconsin

There’s a new campaign you can read about at sentback.org to stop sending people to prison on crimeless revocations. The campaign is sponsored by Restoring Our Communities (ROC) Wisconsin,  WISDOM  and EXPO (Ex-Prisoners Organizing). According to a report by Health Impact Partners  (short web summary  or PDF full report), about 1/3 of the

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