Senate candidate Mandela Barnes has been involved in campaigns calling for a reduction of the number of people in prison in Wisconsin, not an immediate release.
as"to set free from restraint, confinement or servitude.", we rated Half True a claim by then-Gov. Scott Walker that the plan of his rival, Evers, to reduce the population in Wisconsin jails would release"thousands of violent felons."
According to Kenneth Streit, a clinical professor of law emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, those considered"violent offenders" were convicted of crimes such as homicide, sexual assaults, robbery or aggravated assaults. But Streit noted that the majority of those incarcerated for violent offenses have been in jail longer than the other types of crimes, too.
While Barnes has advocated for the"reduction" of the state’s prison population, he hasn’t endorsed the immediate"release" of 50% of inmates – and there is a key difference in those two words. Reducing the number of inmates would likely require years of policy changes, as opposed to just letting people out of prison, no matter their offense.
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