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Dane County Jail Downsizing

May 27, 2020 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail, Wisconsin

Dane County Jail Downsizing: How was it accomplished and who was still in on May 9, 2020? Link to PDF version of this report Author: Pamela Oliver, analyzing data collected by Eric Howland. Data source: Scraping daily web reports of Dane County Jail. In custody status as of 6:30 a.m.

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Why are People in the Dane County Jail?

December 16, 2019 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail

December 2019 This report is my summary of the August 2019 “Analysis of the Dane County Jail Population” written by James Austin, Roger Ocker, and Wendy Naro-Ware of the JFA Institute (note1). The JFA report concludes that the best way to reduce the jail population is to speed the processing

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Long-term prisoners

July 10, 2019 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

There is a great deal of discussion about the best ways to reduce mass incarceration. One topic that has received significant attention is the need to revisit parole for people who have been incarcerated for a long time. Some argue on moral grounds, that there should always be hope, and

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Black Men and the Politics of Redemption

October 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Drug War, Police, Racial issues

This is a long review of a book I highly recommend, Nikki Jones‘s  The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption University of California Press (2018)  so let me begin by highlighting the material that struck me most vividly. This is the first piece I have read that

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Black Strike at UW Madison 1969

June 12, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

In February of 1969, Black students and their White allies at the University of Wisconsin Madison called a strike and blocked entrances to campus buildings to back up their demands. I agreed to be part of a panel June 16 on the Black Student Strike of 1969 at UW Madison.

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American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

June 1, 2018 Pamela Oliver Book Reviews, Racial issues, US history

Angel Adams Parham’s book American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford, 2017, available in hardcover and as an ebook from many vendors) is an exciting work that makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of race in the US. The “racial palimpsest” idea is that

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

February 18, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Brooklyn College’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science Jeanne Theoharis is a readable and fascinating account of the life of Rosa Parks that won many awards when it was punished in 2013. Here’s my “take” on the story, based on the book. I

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When Republicans Opposed the Free Speech of David Duke

February 17, 2018 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Racial issues, Social Movements, US history, White Nationalists

In 1996, the College Republicans thought it was an unfair attack on their opposition to affirmative action to associate it with a known White racist.

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New working paper on White and Black urban and rural imprisonment rates

January 18, 2018 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

I’ve just posted my working paper to SocArXiv  that shows that high White rural imprisonment rates and rises in imprisonment rates in county groups are linked to poverty and low education in rural areas. The paper gathers up the graphs and analysis from my previous post and also provides regression

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Drug Homicide Prosecutions Make Overdose Problems Worse

December 8, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Drug War, Prosecution

Wisconsin leads the nation in filing homicide charges when someone dies from an overdose of an illegal drug, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, whose researchers found 882 news mentions of drug homicide prosecutions in Wisconsin 2011-16.  (Second highest was Ohio with 577; Illinois had 486 and Minnesota 433.)  Although

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