Mark Rice, JustLeadershipUSA campaign coordinator of #CLOSEmsdf on Devil’s Advocate Radio Program:
Despite Minnesota and Wisconsin having similar crime rates, Wisconsin has consistently incarcerated people at twice the rate of Minnesota for decades. Our goals are to decarcerate Wisconsin and close the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility. And the national goal of JustLeadershipUSA is to cut U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. Other states are successfully de-carcerating and reinvesting funds to build stronger healthier communities. States that have decreased prison populations are also seeing a decrease in crime rates.
Most of Wisconsin’s Democratic candidates for governor are coming on board and recognizing this as a winning issue and calling for an end to policies and practices that drive mass supervision and mass incarceration.
Listen to the entire July 9 Devil’s Advocate program with Mark Rice here:
closemsdf.org 