The cost of courts: how cash bail impacts Wisconsin communities news8000.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news8000.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MADISON — In Wisconsin, bail reform has more than once begun with heartbreak. In the late spring of 1979, 22-year-old Joanne Esser of Mount Pleasant was driving her Volkswagen to her family’s summer cottage up north in Pelican Lake when James Stawicki, 23, forced her car off the road. She was found dead, stabbed at least 19 times. The Journal.