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Progressive Wisconsin? State Marked by Empty Factories, Full Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Progressive Wisconsin? State Marked by Empty Factories, Full Prisons In These Times April 5, 2010 State has highest black male incarceration rate in country; twelve times the rate of white men. By Roger Bybee Wisconsin has long enjoyed a reputation as an enlightened, progressive state. Its reputation goes back to the populist flavor of the state constitution, the strong movement for the abolition of slavery, the staunchly anti-corporate governor (and later senator) "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, the building of powerful labor and socialist movements, and one of the nation's very best university systems. But a visit to my hometown of Racine for a meeting this week was a painful reminder of how the city and state are moving toward a very different model of society: the mass destruction of family-supporting jobs coupled with the mass incarceration of thousands of young men who grew up in deprived, disorganized neighborhoods shattered by de-industrialization...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).