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Wisconsin Department of Corrections provides information and policy changes affecting inmate care during the coronavirus crisis.

Printed in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 11/1/18, Attorney Craig Mastantuono's opinion piece on the state of our prisons after twenty years of Tough on Crime laws. Baron Walker did his time and reformed. Wisconsin kept him locked up anyway. Inmates like Baron, subject to parole reviews, are not being released, and Wisconsin's so-called Truth in Sentencing Law is even worse, resulting in racially disparate and mass incarceration in the Dairy State.