Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Damita Brown (in exile)… Sean Wilson from ACLU of Wisconsin’s Smart Justice Campaign joins to talk about juvenile justice and legal system reform through changes to make the state budget just and fighting for restorative justice. Sean is a member of Governor Evers’ Juvenile Justice Commission advising DOJ […]
Restorative Justice and Sijo Poetry
Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Damita Brown (in exile)… Sean Wilson from ACLU of Wisconsin’s Smart Justice Campaign joins to talk about juvenile justice and legal system reform through changes to make the state budget just and fighting for restorative justice. Sean is a member of Governor Evers’ Juvenile Justice Commission advising DOJ […]
WI ACLU opposes proposed “Tough on crime” legislation
Despite growing trends in the country for prison reform with less incarceration, the Wisconsin legislature is proposing 9 bills which would increase the number of prisoners in the state. Jerome Dillard from Ex-Po talks with Sean Wilson and Emilio DeTorre from the ACLU of Wisconsin about these bills and an organized protest and discussions with […]
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 […]
