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County Sheriff’s Trying to Spend Double their Overtime Budget
Milwaukee’s county sheriff’s office projects they will spend double their projected budget on overtime. A report from the sheriff’s office states that “Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) estimates 2021 overtime to be $7,800,000 which is $3,892,860 over the 2021 adopted budget of $3,907,140 or 100% of budgeted dollars.”
Prison Hurts All of Wisconsin.
Despite many cultural differences, Wisconsin’s prison system has a similar negative impact on people in both under-resourced rural communities and Milwaukee’s northside. Those who have been cut out of the jobs economy, who’ve been marginalized and neglected by political elites, business owners, and corporations, are more likely to struggle with addiction, despair, and violence. We …
Union Supply Monopoly
Prisoners are isolated to ordering solely from union supply as a contracted vendor… I’m under the impression it violates the consumers protection act where we are to have price competitiveness and is at contrast with the reasons the doc initially cited as their reasons to start the four original vendors contracts in 2007 or so, …
JFC Budget Testimony Highlights
We sifted through three long days of back-to-back two minute testimonies to pull out some highlight reels, which we’ll be sharing here. We also posted some testimonies to our instagram as they were happening, so follow us there to get more stuff. First up, two minutes of fiery testimony given to the first hearing …
Governor Evers Ignores the People, Funds the Police.
Today, Governor Evers passed a law that gives money to police. It makes police and firefighters eligible for PTSD worker’s compensation. Firefighters are fine. Cops are not. They are not workers and should not get worker compensation. The police are, and always have been the sworn enemies of the working class. They are the attack …
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Judge Dorow: DOC has “trump” power over the courts
This article was sent to us by Ron Schroeder. Probation & Parole agents have good reason to believe they have more power than a court – a chief judge said so. Judge Jennifer R. Dorow is the chief judge of the 3rd Judicial Administrative District (Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Jefferson, and Dodge Counties). She also chairs …
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