GET ME REWRITE!! Here's the legacy the "lock-'em-up" prison mentality of Wisconsin's GOP legislative leaders

 

Top headline:  WisPolitics, 3/11/2011

Bottom headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 5/23/2032

Wisconsin also has the fourth-highest racial disparity nationwide among prisoners incarcerated for crimes they committed as youth. Black Wisconsinites make up just less than 8% of the population but constitute 60% of offenders held for crimes committed when they were young.

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