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Special Committee on Justice Reinvestment Initiative Oversight

Chair: Sen. Lena Taylor
Vice-Chair:  Rep. Joel Kleefisch
Legislative Council Staff: Anne Sappenfield, Ronald Sklansky, and Melissa Schmidt
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The Special Committee is directed to serve as the entity to which the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center reports.  The study committee process creates a unique forum in which legislators will receive data from the Justice Center along with public members who work directly in different aspects of the corrections and criminal justice systems.  The CSG Justice Center will provide technical assistance relating to corrections costs.  Specifically, the technical assistance will include:  (1) mapping of specific neighborhoods where large numbers of offenders are released from prison to identify how to improve coordination of services, correctional supervision, and law enforcement; (2) analyzing the prison population to determine what is driving its growth and to identify which categories of offenders are at high risk of re-offending; (3) developing policy options, based upon the data collected, to increase public safety and decrease corrections spending; and (4) projecting the fiscal impact of any policy options identified.  Therefore, legislators and public members on the committee would develop a comprehensive understanding of the data collected and the issues identified and would be better equipped to analyze policy options relating to corrections.

Recommendations to the Joint Legislative Council (May 20, 2009)
  • Results of the May 20 meeting.
  • Proposed Report to the Legislature 2009-12, Special Committee on Justice Reinvestment Initiative Oversight (May 18, 2009).
  • WLC: 0425/3, relating to maximum term of extended supervision.
  • WLC: 0426/3, relating to the parole and extended supervision revocation process and time spent in prison after revocation.
  • WLC: 0427/3, relating to community supervision services.
  • WLC: 0428/3, relating to risk reduction sentence.
May 15, 2009 Meeting
  • Editorial, Shrinking the Prison Population, submitted by Chair Taylor (May 11, 2009).
  • Editorial, Time to break prison-spending cycle, submitted by Chair Taylor (May 13, 2009).
  • WLC: 0425/2, relating to maximum term of extended supervision.
  • WLC: 0426/2, relating to the parole and extended supervision revocation process and time spent in prison after revocation.
  • WLC: 0427/2, relating to community supervision services.
  • WLC: 0428/2, relating to risk reduction sentence.
May 6, 2009 Meeting
  • WLC: 0425/1, relating to maximum term of extended supervision.
  • WLC: 0426/1, relating to the parole and extended supervision revocation process and time spent in prison after revocation.
  • WLC: 0427/1, relating to community supervision services.
  • WLC: 0428/1, relating to risk reduction sentence.
  • Letter to Senator Lena Taylor from Richard Dufour, Marquette County District Attorney (April 30, 2009).
  • Report, Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety, submitted by the Council of state Governments, Justice Center (May 2009).
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article, requested by Chair Taylor.
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article, requested by Chair Taylor.
  • Handout, Kansas/Texas outcomes, submitted by Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Justice Reinvestment Initiative, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
April 22, 2009 Meeting
  • Draft document, Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety, submitted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center (April 2009).
  • PowerPoint presentation, Justice Reinvestment Policy Framework for Wisconsin, submitted by Dr. Tony Fabelo, Director of Research, Marshall Clement, Justice Reinvestment Project Director, Mike Eisenberg, Research Manager, and Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
April 7, 2009 Meeting
  • Legislative Audit Bureau’s evaluation of mental health care in the Department of Corrections, Department of Health Services: Inmate Mental Heath Care: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lab/reports/09-4full.pdf.
  • PowerPoint presentation, Final Analysis and Framework for Justice Reinvestment in Wisconsin, submitted by Dr. Tony Fabelo, Director of Research, Dr. Fred Osher, Director of Health Systems and Services Policy, Marshall Clement, Justice Reinvestment Project Director, Hope Glassberg and Marc Pelka, Policy Analysts, Justice Center, Council of State Governments. 
  • Report, Setting the Framework for a Wisconsin Community Justice Act, Committee on Effective Strategies for Community Justice (June 2008), submitted by Tony Steveler, Policy Initiatives Advisor, Department of Corrections.
  • Initiatives Summary, Summary of Initiatives Referenced at Committee Meeting on 03/11/2009, submitted by Tony Steveler, Policy Initiatives Advisor, Department of Corrections.
March 11, 2009 Meeting
  • Report, Governor’s Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities, submitted by Public Member Maxine White.
  • Letter from Senator Lena Taylor, Chair, dated March 3, 2009.
  • Presentation, Interim Analyses on Community Corrections, submitted by the Council of state Governments Justice Center (March 11, 2009).
January 12, 2009 Meeting
  • Document, submitted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, Justice Reinvestment:  Overview.
  • Report, submitted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, Justice Reinvestment State Brief:  Kansas (October 2007).
  • Report, submitted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, Justice Reinvestment State Brief: Texas (October 2007).
  • Report, submitted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, Reducing Crime & Generating Savings:  Options for Arizona Policymakers (February 2008).
  • Council of State Governments Justice Center website:  www.justicecenter.csg.org.
  • Justice Reinvestment:  A Project of the Council of State Governments Justice Center website:  www.justicereinvestment.org.
  • Presentation, Challenges and Strategies to Develop a Policy Framework for Wisconsin, submitted by Dr. Tony Fabelo, Director of Research, Marshall Clement, Justice Reinvestment Project Director, Mike Eisenberg, Research Manager, and Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
  • Presentation, Justice Reinvestment, submitted by Dr. Tony Fabelo, Director of Research, Marshall Clement, Justice Reinvestment Project Director, Mike Eisenberg, Research Manager, and Marc Pelka, Policy Analyst, Council of State Governments Justice Center.
  • Ten-Year Facility Development Plan, Wisconsin Department of Corrections (January 8, 2009).