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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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Another bad idea: automatic revocation if charged with a crime

June 15, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Revocations, Wisconsin

Hopefully the enormous costs will dissuade legislators from passing a bill that would require the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to automatically recommend revocation of anyone “charged with a crime.” The bill literally says “charged with a crime.” Not a felony, not a violent crime, “a crime.” Although ordinances that are

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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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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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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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