WI Senate Must Improve Youth Prisons Bill (AB 953/SB 807) Issue: Last week, the Wisconsin Assembly unanimously passed a bill to close the notoriously horrific Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake prisons without investing in community alternatives. The bill invests over 65 million dollars…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 9, 2018 by Jeff Roman and Sharlen Moore Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 21, 2018 Contact: Morgan W. Grogan, morgan.williams@berlinrosen.com, 202-836-9890 MILWAUKEE – Youth Justice Milwaukee co-founders Sharlen Moore and Jeffery Roman released the following statement after the Wisconsin State Assembly passed a bill that would close the terrible…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 4, 2018 Contact: Morgan W. Grogan, morgan.williams@berlinrosen.com, 202-836-9890 Youth Justice Milwaukee co-founders Jeffery Roman and Sharlen Moore released the following statement in response to the news that Governor Scott Walker plans to close Lincoln Hills and…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Jeff Roman and Sharlen Moore February 16, 2017 “I felt like my son was a caged dog, not a child or a man.” That’s how a mother described her son’s experience at Lincoln Hills School for Boys. Sadly,…
Background on Youth Justice Milwaukee There is an important and immediate window of opportunity for Youth Justice Milwaukee (YJM) to impact the county’s short and long-term plans. YJM is a broad-based campaign advocating for community-based, family-centered, restorative programs as an…
The Problem with Wisconsin’s Juvenile Justice System Wisconsin’s juvenile justice system is excessively punitive and insufficiently focused on rehabilitative alternatives to incarceration. Despite the vast body of research on the harmful effects of youth incarceration, Wisconsin continues to rely heavily…
What should be done? Youth prisons are obsolete and should be closed. Youth incarceration has dramatically decreased over the past decade, and some youth prisons are at 50 percent or less capacity. Closing these facilities would free up millions in…
The U.S.’ Broken Juvenile Justice System: Key Facts On any given day, approximately 50,000 youth in the United States are in youth prisons or other out-of-home confinement facilities.[1] According to the U.S. Department of Justice[2], three quarters of the youth…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 22, 2017 Ianthe Metzger | Ianthe.Metzger@berlinrosen.com | 202-800-8169 Youth Justice Milwaukee Condemns Proposed Bill to Send More Children to Prison MILWAUKEE -- In response to legislation proposed by State Senator Leah Vukmir and State Representative Joe…