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| Prison Reform Advocates Call For Expanded Parole, Less Use Of Solitary Confinement |
| By wpr.org- Gilman Halsted |
| Published: 11/04/2015 |
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The faith-based prison reform coalition WISDOM is continuing to push for changes in the state's parole system. They are calling on the state Department of Corrections to release the names of the more than 2,000 parole-eligible inmates. More than a hundred activists from churches across the state gathered in Madison Tuesday to launch a "prayer for reform campaign." But the group isn't only depending on prayer to reduce the state's prison population. Jerome Dillard of the group Ex-Prisoners Organizing said the open records request is the latest step in an effort to win release for inmates who were sentenced before December 1999 when Wisconsin's so-called truth in sentencing law took effect . "These individual who served more than enough of their time because the judges knew what they were doing when they sentenced them under the old law," said Dillard. "It's time to start paroling our brothers and sisters out of Wisconsin prisons." Read More. |
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