prison reform

The next budget hearing is this Friday, April 4, in West Allis.

The governor wants to close the Green Bay Correctional Institution, where hundreds of inmates were convicted in southeastern Wisconsin.

In recent years, the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center has shifted from an emphasis on punishment toward evidence-based practices that have been shown to reduce recidivism.

Providing phone and video calls from prison is a billion-dollar industry, with incarcerated people footing the bill. WISDOM aims to change this by making phone and video calls from prison free in Wisconsin.

Looking into the role correctional officers play in the prison system, including at Wisconsin's Waupun Correctional Institution, and what can be done moving forward.

A Wisconsin prison warden was jailed just hours before a scheduled news conference where officials planned to discuss the findings of investigations into multiple deaths at his facility. Online records show that Waupun Correctional Institution Warden Randall Hepp was booked into the Dodge County Jail on Wednesday morning.

The Green Bay Correctional Institution is the target of an unusual roundtable at the state Capitol.

After more than 20 years in prison, Adam Procell is working to simplify the process for those reentering the community to find basic needs. Procell is also helping build trust between members rentering the community and law enforcement, who may hold biases against them based on their past.

A national organization based in Madison is sending books to LGBTQ+ incarcerated people across the United States.

Keri Blakinger, an investigative reporter who worked on this study of banned books in U.S. prisons for The Marshall Project, shares her findings and answers if these books should be allowed in prison.