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The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has touched nearly every aspect of our lives — rapidly changing how we work, socialize, shop and function on a daily basis. And now it’s fundamentally reshaping our democracy.

This has been a challenging time for so many Wisconsinites, and there are even more trying times ahead. Throughout this crisis, we will remain steadfast in our defense of liberty and committed to supporting the civil rights and well-being of everyone in our state.

Wisconsin officials should heed public health experts’ advice and immediately release individuals in detention who are at high risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19, wrote the ACLU of Wisconsin in a letter to Governor Tony Evers and other criminal justice system stakeholders today.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to protect civil liberties and civil rights, and is submitting this testimony opposing SB 745, 749, 752, 753, 754.   These bills would take Wisconsin in the wrong direction on criminal justice reform, by expanding, rather than reducing, our prison population.

The ACLU of Wisconsin today condemned President Trump's decision to expand his executive order to ban people from six additional countries from entering the United States. 

These bills would take Wisconsin in the wrong direction on criminal justice reform, by expanding, rather than reducing, our prison population.

Wisconsin’s current probation and parole system keeps thousands of people cycling through a bureaucracy that destabilizes their lives and makes it more likely they’ll return to prison.

Some state legislators are trying to revive the "tough on crime" era in Wisconsin, hearkening back to the failed policies of the past.