GET ME REWRITE!! GOP legislators pass bill that will further inflame Wisconsin's corrections crisis

 

Top headline:  Wisconsin Examiner

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Bottom headline:  Wisconsin State Journal

From the State Journal:

Under the proposal, the maximum penalty for causing another person's death by manufacturing, distributing or delivering many controlled substances, analogs of those substances, ketamine or flunitrazepam would increase from a 25-year prison sentence to a 40-year sentence. The maximum extended supervision period would also shift from 15 to 20 years under the new bill.  

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" While reducing rates of overdose deaths is certainly an urgent priority, SB 101 won't alleviate the crisis," ACLU of Wisconsin policy analyst Jon McCray Jones said. "An extensive body of research - as well as our own lived experiences - tells us that punitive drug laws don't reduce drug use, substance abuse disorder, or overdoses."

Search for the words 'staffing', 'attrition', and 'burnout' in the State Journal article, and you'll come up with nix, nada, zilch.