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| Groups seek to reduce prison population |
| By sheboyganpress.com - Charles Davis |
| Published: 02/27/2012 |
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GREEN BAY, WS — Two faith-based organizations want lawmakers to create new policies that would reduce the number of state prison inmates by 50 percent in less than four years. ESTHER-Faith Communities United for Justice and JOSHUA last week announced the statewide campaign called 11x15 on the steps of the Brown County Courthouse in downtown Green Bay. The goal is to reduce the prison population — now at 21,590 — to 11,000 inmates by the end of 2015. The number of prison inmates in Wisconsin has nearly doubled since 1995 and the cost for the state Department of Corrections was more than $1.3 billion last year, a 15 percent jump from 1990, the groups said. "We believe our state prison system is broken," said Edward Winney, a member of Green Bay-based JOSHUA. "We believe in treatment instead of prison for nonviolent offenders." The Department of Corrections reported 12,364 inmates in state adult prisons in the middle of 1995. "We would support anything that would work towards reducing recidivism," department spokesman Tim LeMonds said of the organizations' campaign, adding the department has no official partnership with the two groups. Read More. |
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