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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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Education, Poverty, and Rural vs. Urban Incarceration Rates

July 14, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In a previous post, I showed how the White imprisonment rate rose in rural counties even as the Black and White imprisonment rates in metropolitan areas fell. In this post, I show that the White rural-urban difference in imprisonment is linked to the White rural-urban difference in poverty and education,

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White rural imprisonment rates

July 7, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

Unremarked until very recently* , there is a hidden story to be told about the rise in White incarceration in the United States to supplement the story about the mass incarceration of Black people I and many others have been writing about for years. The White story has been going

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Clock restarting and Wisconsin’s Revocation Problem

June 12, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

A quirk in Wisconsin’s Truth in Sentencing law increases the “churning” in and out of prison via revocation and creates the possibility for massive injustice & increases costs.[i] A Wisconsin sentence has a total length that is divided into two parts, imprisonment and extended supervision in the community. If a

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Offense, Admission Types, In Prison Vs. Admitted

June 9, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

  I’ve written several posts trying to clarify the reasons you will get a different mix of offenders in a snapshot of who is in prison versus the flow of prison admissions. This also comes up as we compare the combination of offense type and admission type. To illustrate this,

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