As calls for racial justice intensify throughout the country, so have efforts to reform aspects of the criminal justice system, including pretrial-detention practices that keep hundreds of thousands of legally innocent people behind bars.

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When the sun rose on Kenosha on Aug. 26, former Marine Tim Thompkins said his hometown felt like a battlefield. Smoke lingered in the air from buildings and cars set ablaze the night before. Empty tear gas canisters and pepper bullets littered the streets. Homes were boarded up, and businesses ravaged.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers has some big ideas about how to reform Wisconsin's overcrowded prison system.

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A new report shows the number of adults in Wisconsin prisons reached a record high last year.

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Gov. Scott Walker says he doesn't "have any knowledge" about whether his administration stopped former Corrections Secretary Ed Wall from seeking an outside review of Wisconsin's troubled juvenile prisons in 2015.

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A television station is reporting that Gov. Scott Walker's administration told former prisons Secretary Ed Wall to cancel his request for a prison-administrator association to investigate abuse at Wisconsin's youth prison.

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Pandora Lobacz was trying to assert control of her classroom at Lincoln Hills youth prison when she ordered an inmate pacing in front of her desk to return to his seat.

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The Assembly Corrections Committee has approved two Republican bills that could send more kids to Wisconsin's troubled youth prison for longer stints.

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Wisconsin's prisons are on track for a record number of inmates by 2019 as violent crime edges upward.

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A Democratic state senator has crafted a package of bills he says are designed to increase safety at Wisconsin prisons in the wake of an investigation into alleged abuse at the state's juvenile prison.

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Sixty tower guard positions in 10 Wisconsin prisons would be eliminated under a vote by the Legislature's budget committee.

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The Legislature's budget committee has approved spending an additional $5 million above previous estimates to pay for housing inmates in the state prison system.

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The Legislature's finance committee is set to decide this week how to handle the state's growing number of women prisoners after forecasts show the population likely will grow faster than Gov. Scott Walker anticipated in his budget proposal.

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Wisconsin's criminal justice system is doing an average job, at best, at rehabilitating prisoners, according to most voters who responded to a recent Marquette University Law School poll.

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Some ex-offenders here report to federal court twice a month so that judges can gauge their progress, from drug testing and parenting classes to education and job training.

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10-2957 Westefer v. Neal

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11-1532 Munson v. Gaetz

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10-3256 Grayson v. Schuler

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11-2336 Shields v. Dart

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10-3497 Greene v. Doruff

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Civil Rights Prisons; medical needs; deliberate indifference

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Civil Rights Prisons; freedom of religion

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Brown County inmates can now get their sentences reduced by performing community service.

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Prisons Risk classification Where the PRC’s risk-rating determination is arbitrary, a prisoner’s elevation in custody classification is reversed. “[A]n inmate’s risk rating is but one consideration relevant to establishing custody classification. In this case, however, the record shows that the ...

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Prisons Prison discipline Specific intent is not an element in a prison disciplinary proceeding. “Jones argues that his lack of access to the evidence prevented him from presenting what he calls his actual innocence defense. As noted above, according to ...

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Prisons Prison discipline Ramiah Whiteside, pro se, challenges Wisconsin Department of Corrections decisions regarding an inmate conduct report. Whiteside argues: (1) the evidence was insufficient; (2) the adjustment committee failed to adequately explain its reasons for the discipline imposed; (3) ...

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Prisons Prison discipline Eduardo M. Perez appeals an order dismissing his petition for a writ of certiorari from a prison disciplinary decision. Perez argues that the Department of Corrections (DOC) violated its administrative rules and denied him due process by: ...

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Prisons Prison discipline James Hebel appeals from a summary judgment order dismissing a declaratory judgment action in which he sought to enforce a settlement agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections relating to a disciplinary proceeding. We affirm. This opinion ...

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Constitutional Law Due process; prisons Persons civilly committed as sexually violent persons are entitled to due process before being disciplined, but disciplinary measures that do not substantially worsen the conditions of confinement of a lawfully confined person are not actionable. ...

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