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Month: November 2017

Racial Disparities in Plea Bargaining in Dane County 2000-2006

November 26, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Plea bargaining, Wisconsin

A forthcoming research article,  (and now published)   by Carlos Berdejó a professor of Law at Loyola of Los Angeles who also has a PhD in economics, has documented racial disparities in the plea bargaining process in Dane County, Wisconsin (home of the University of Wisconsin – Madison) in the years 2000-2006.

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For Closing the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility

November 24, 2017 Pamela Oliver Community supervision, Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

Activists in Wisconsin’s Close MSDF coalition  are focusing attention on the inhumane conditions in the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) and the problem of crimeless revocations that send people there.  The MSDF was built in 2001 to house people temporarily who had been accused of violating the terms of their

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