Study referenced in Wisconsin Prisons Incarcerate Most Black Men In U.S. (NPR, 10/3/2013)
From the executive summary. Among the most critical workforce issues facing Wisconsin are governmental policies and practices leading to mass incarceration of African Americans men and suspensions of driving privileges to low-income adults. The prison population in Wisconsin has more than tripled since 1990, fueled by increased government funding for drug enforcement (rather than treatment) and prison construction, three-strike rules, mandatory minimum sentence laws, truth-in-sentencing replacing judicial discretion in setting punishments, concentrated policing in minority communities, and state incarceration for minor probation and supervision violations. Particularly impacted were African American males, with the 2010 U.S. Census showing Wisconsin having the highest black male incarceration rate in the nation. In Milwaukee County over half of African American men in their 30s have served time in state prison.
Reported in State Senator Renews Calls For Juvenile Justice Reform. (Wisconsin Public Radio, 7/11/2017)
Other gasket-blowin' posts:
No empathy here: That gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon offers no time to heal. (6/1/2017)
Point/counterpoint: That gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon wants to lock them up. (5/20/2017)
That gasket-blowin' (and precious snowflake) Bob Gannon threatens to quit Rotary Club. (3/1/2017)
That gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon wants to lock her up. (11/9/2016)
That gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon urges GOP to unite behind 'Sassy Trump'. (8/19/2016)
3 GOP Wisconsin State Assembly frosh running unopposed for re-election. (7/27/2016)
For gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon, more guns = greater safety. (6/23/2016)
UPDATE: Gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon brings his own stir stick to cauldron of fear. (6/9/2016)
Al Ott retires after serving 30 years in Wisconsin Assembly; No word yet from that gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon. (4/1/2016)
Dear gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon, You know this constitutional amendment means the end of Fearless Leader Vos. (2/25/2016)
Turning the gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon's sneering, small-d democrat slur on its head. (1/17/2016)
Dear Alan, the gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon lives in Washington County. (1/13/2016)
When it comes to that gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon, the bird is the word. (1/12/2016)
That gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon is back on the scene with more words of wisdom. (12/21/2015)
The way I see it, Bob Gannon's bill doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell in the Wisconsin State Senate. (11/24/2015)
'Real gun control' as described by the volatile, gasket-blowing Bob Gannon. (10/3/2015)
Bob Gannon boldly blows another gasket. (9/15/2015)
Bob Gannon blows a gasket. (7/6/2015)
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