UW Diverts Public Health Endowment Funds to Political Causes Again

By Brett Healy - June 9, 2022

Anti-Racism, Blue Cross Blue Shield, health equity, Justified Anger, Prison, Public Health, Public Schools, Transgender, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine And Public Health, UW Population Health, UW-Madison, Wisconsin Partnership Program

Multi-Million-Dollar Fund Recipient UW Population Health Institute’s In Solidarity Podcast Now Pushes Reparations Read More UW Diverts Public Health Endowment Funds to Political Causes Again

Milwaukee Courts’ Data-Driven Debacle

By MacIverNews - November 20, 2019

Courts, Criminal Justice Reform, Jail, Judges, Justice Point, JusticePoint, Milwaukee County, Prison

Milwaukee County has been using data-driven decision making for years to lower crime rates and jail time. Too bad the vendor, Justice Point, struggles to provide even the most basic data about its work. Meanwhile, FBI data shows crime has skyrocketed since the county started on this path. Read More Milwaukee Courts’ Data-Driven Debacle

Republican Budget Writers Blast Evers’ Prison Guard Pay Raise Plan As ‘Bad Human Resource Practice’

By Matt Kittle - May 10, 2019

Chris Taylor, Compensation, Correctional Officers, Department of Corrections, Howard Marklein, Mark Born, Mike Rohrkaste, Prison, Republicans, Robin Vos, Tony Evers

By M.D. Kittle – Republicans on the Legislature’s budget-writing committee want to correct an Evers’ administration Corrections compensation plan that provides temporary $5-per-hour raises at some but not all state prisons. Read More Republican Budget Writers Blast Evers’ Prison Guard Pay Raise Plan As ‘Bad Human Resource Practice’

MacIver News Minute: Gov. Evers’ False Drug-Crime Statistic Goes Up In Smoke

By Chris Rochester - February 26, 2019

Chris Taylor, Decriminalization, Democratic Party, Jon Erpenbach, Marijuana, NBC, Prison, Tony Evers

A key talking point of Gov. Tony Evers’ “first step” proposal to legalize medical and recreational marijuana went up in smoke last week. In rolling out his wide-ranging initiative, the governor and fellow Democrats declared “drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85% of inmate populations.” The claim is patently false – the real stat is 11%. And as MacIver News first reported, the Evers’ administration quietly scrubbed the bad stat from the original press release. Read More MacIver News Minute: Gov. Evers’ False Drug-Crime Statistic Goes Up In Smoke

Up In Smoke: Evers’ Claim About Pot And Prison Quietly Disappears

By Matt Kittle - February 21, 2019

Chris Taylor, Decriminalization, Democratic Party, Jon Erpenbach, Marijuana, NBC, Prison, Tony Evers

By M.D. Kittle – In a press release and on his official Twitter account Evers declared that “drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85% of inmate populations.” The claim is patently false. Team Evers has quietly scrubbed the stat. Read More Up In Smoke: Evers’ Claim About Pot And Prison Quietly Disappears