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Paths for Reducing Mass Incarceration

July 22, 2023 Pamela Oliver Imprisonment, Uncategorized

This paper “What the Numbers Say about How to Reduce Imprisonment: Offenses, Returns, and Turnover” is somewhat out of date as it is based on 2016 data and was published in2020, but a conversation brought it to mind. The paper asks: what would it take to get US imprisonment back

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Prison Gerrymandering (From Prison Policy)

December 6, 2021 Pamela Oliver Imprisonment, Wisconsin

This post from Prison Policy explains why local prison gerrymandering is a problem and how local governments have been prohibited from addressing the issue by a 1981 Wisconsin attorney general decision.

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Racial Disparity in Wisconsin Felony Sentences

February 18, 2021 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Prosecution, Wisconsin

Columnist Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the news last week that Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack has been sitting on a year-old study that showed a clear pattern of racial disparity in Wisconsin prison sentences. Specifically, the study shows substantial racial differences in the likelihood

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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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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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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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The Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform

August 31, 2017 Michelle Phelps Imprisonment, Research on protest & social movements

This is a guest post by Michelle Phelps, Joshua Page, and Philip Goodman. The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. Before the election of President Donald J. Trump, many argued the pendulum was

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Prison Isolation is Torture, Ineffective, and Illogical

August 21, 2017 Andrew Clark Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement is, at its core, simply what its name suggests; being confined to solitude. Sometimes called disciplinary segregation, administrative segregation, or simply “the hole”, solitary confinement involves cutting a prisoner off from almost all human contact for 22-24 hours a day by placing them in a compact and barren

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Use of Pepper Spray to “Fog” Inmates in Jail: A National Trend?

August 2, 2017 Emma Frankham Imprisonment, Jail, Wisconsin

Police use of force has recently stirred widespread public interest and concern. Recent use of force incidents have been well-publicized on social media due to the ability of the public to witness and video record police actions. However, owing to the fact that the operations of jails and prisons are

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Changes in White and Black imprisonment rates: poverty, education, type of place

July 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In my previous posts, I showed that White imprisonment has been growing more in rural areas than urban areas, and that this is tied to the fact that rural places are much more likely to have high poverty rates and low average educational levels. In this post, I follow up

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