Stories tagged: "criminal justice reform"
Republican lawmakers also reject Democratic attempt to reign in spending millions of taxpayer dollars on private lawyers.
About 90% of children who commit crimes have significant trauma histories, according to a state trauma-informed care coordinator. But the system is not set up with treatment and rehabilitation as priorities, explained childhood trauma survivors and experts. Wisconsin’s governor wants to change that.
Wisconsin continues to sentence young people to life sentences without the possibility of parole, despite the practice being banned by the US Supreme Court.
On March 13, Breonna Taylor, an EMT working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, was shot and killed in her Kentucky home by police.
“He’s on top of me and it looks like he’s about to hit me. Like, I’m reacting like any other normal human being would.”
Republicans abandon bipartisan criminal justice reform in election year push