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End Mass Incarceration in Wisconsin!

We all want dignity and justice for our loved ones, and healing for those who have suffered from trauma, addiction or mental health crises.


Instead, politicians have built new prisons, incarcerating over 41,000 of our loved ones leading to an incarceration rate of 676 to every 1,000 in Wisconsin. (Prison Policy Initiative).


Together, we work to end mass incarceration, expand funding to community-based alternatives to crimeless revocations and treatment alternatives and diversions.  We will close prions and re-invest money in programs that will rebuild communities that have been devastated by mass incarceration.


Our current campaign, End The Lockdowns, highlights the lockdown crisis happening in Wisconsin's prison such as Green Bay Correctional Institution, Waupun Correctional Institution and Stanley Correctional Institution. These lockdowns started during the pandemic but still remain in place, limiting people who are currently incarcerated's movement, showers and access to necessary medication. 


We call upon Governor Evers, Department of Corrections Secretary and lawmakers in Wisconsin to immediately commit closing the prisons and start the process toward justice reinvestment.


Support our efforts by becoming a sustaining member here. Whether it's $5 or $50 a month, any amount will help us strengthen our organizing efforts to:

  • Advance racial and economic justice
  • Liberate people from Wisconsin's carceral system
  • End perpetual punishment of directly impacted people
  • Shift narratives that dehumanize people with conviction records
  • Invest resources to build safer, stronger, and healthier communities

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Current Campaigns

End The Lockdowns in Wisconsin Prisons

End The Lockdowns in Wisconsin Prisons

End The Lockdowns in Wisconsin Prisons

We seek to raise awareness on the detrimental effects of lockdowns to people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin’s prisons and their loved ones, urging Governor Tony Evers to use his authority to take action. It aims to close prisons, reduce the prison population and reinvest spending into community resources that decrease crime and strengthen communities.

End Solitary Confinement

End The Lockdowns in Wisconsin Prisons

End The Lockdowns in Wisconsin Prisons

We seek to end the use of solitary confinement is an important part of our statewide Transformational Justice Campaign. This campaign aims to advance racial justice, decarcerate Wisconsin, and redirect resources to build safer, stronger, and healthier communities. The campaign also strives to restore the rights of people with conviction r

We seek to end the use of solitary confinement is an important part of our statewide Transformational Justice Campaign. This campaign aims to advance racial justice, decarcerate Wisconsin, and redirect resources to build safer, stronger, and healthier communities. The campaign also strives to restore the rights of people with conviction records and shift narratives that dehumanize formerly incarcerated people. 

Learn more

Higher Education After Incarceration

Resource by Intelligent

About the Restore Our Communities (ROC) Campaign

ROC Wisconsin Fact Sheet
ROC Wisconsin Brochure

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Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration

Revoked. Full Report
Revoked. Summary and Recommendations
Revoked. Implications Specifically for Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Community Corrections Story

The Wisconsin Community Corrections Story. Full Report
The Wisconsin Community Corrections Story. Executive Summary
The Wisconsin Community Corrections Story. Press Release

Crimeless Revocations: The Health Impacts of Locking People Up Without a New Conviction

Excessive Revocations in Wisconsin. Health Impact Report. WISDOM
Executive Summary. Excessive Revocations in Wisconsin
Infographic. Excessive Revocations in Wisconsin
Incarcerated Without Conviction. The Abuse of Revocation in Wisconsin

Treatment Alternatives and Diversions

Treatment Alternatives to Prison - Health Impact Project

Publications of Letters from Inmates

Incarcerated Without Conviction. The Abuse of Revocation in Wisconsin
It’s Time to Fix Our Broken Parole System. Letters From Inmates
Our Broken System. Excerpts From Prison Letters.
Voices From Inside. Wisconsin Prisoners Speak-Out

Mass Incarceration

WISDOM’s Blueprint to End Mass Incarceration In Wisconsin
Hunger and Mass Incarceration
A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities

Videos

EXPO Presents: MSDF Campaign
WISDOM March to the State Capitol
EXPO MSDF Panel Discussion. RIDRacism Event

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