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WI: After 150 years, Wisconsin?s prison population finally declines

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

After 150 years, Wisconsin?s prison population finally declines December 24, 2010 By Matt Hrodey Milwaukee Magazine After more than 150 years of persistent increases, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is reporting a sustained decline in the state?s prison population. Between fiscal years 2007 and 2010, the population fell about 7 percent, the largest decline in state history. Experts say court diversion programs, declining crime rates and the state?s focus on preventing recidivism are responsible for the reductions. On June 30, at the end of fiscal year 2010, the department reported earlier this week, there were 22,171 inmates in the state?s prisons, up from 22,008 at the end of fiscal year 2009. But this slight increase followed three years of consecutive declines in fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009, a first since the state?s first correctional facility opened in Waupun in 1851...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).