On this month’s Ex-PO edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz, Jerome Dillard talks with prison reform activists Ramiah Whiteside and Kevin Cook about a number of topics, first and foremost being COVID in Wisconsin prisons and a proposed Assembly to vaccinate inmates no sooner than 21 days after the vaccine is available to the general […]
New Study: Parole and probation violations are #1 source of incarcerat...
In this month’s 8 O’Clock Buzz/Ex-PO program, Jerome Dillard talks with Mark Rice, Organizer for MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, Equality, and Solidarity) and Allison Frankel from the ACLU about the new report “Revoked: Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States” — the cycling of individuals from probation back to incarceration without […]
Challenging Aspects of the Wisconsin Parole System
The US Supreme Court has held that states must give most juveniles sentenced to life in prison a chance to earn parole release based on a standard of rehabilitation and reform, and a system that allows parole commissioners the discretion to deny release is unconstitutional, argues a lawsuit filed in federal court in April by […]