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Milwaukee County Awarded Additional $1.34 Million by MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge to Rethink Local Justice System
New Funding Will Support Initiatives Aimed at Preventing Unnecessary Jail Use and Advancing Racial Equity
MILWAUKEE – February 9, 2021 – By way of the Milwaukee Community Justice Council (CJC), Milwaukee County is the recipient of a $1.34 million grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to continue building on efforts to rethink the local criminal justice system, prevent unnecessary jail use, and eliminate racial inequities. The grant brings the Foundation’s total investment in Milwaukee County to $5.64 million to date, and is part of the Safety and Justice Challenge, a $246 million national initiative to reduce over-incarceration and advance racial equity in local criminal justice systems by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails.
Since the initiative began in Philadelphia, the local prison population has decreased by 43%. The city has closed its House of Corrections and avoided the construction of a new prison.
By 2022, the initiative aims to reduce the city s jail population by 58% from its 2015 level. With the new grant money, the city will target the following reform measures:
•Providing early bail review hearings to people held in jail on low amounts of bail
•Increasing early diversion opportunities through the Police-Assisted Diversion Program
•Improving connections to treatment and services for people on community supervision with a mental illness
•Increasing investments in community-driven reforms through a criminal justice microgrant fund.
April 7, 2021
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14 innovative projects helping to save the planet and make the world a better place
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Digital crowdsourcing platform UpLink was created to address the world’s most pressing problems.
The initiative seeks sustainable solutions to tackle issues such as climate change and social injustice.
Projects are also aimed at tackling the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
State Attorney’s Office launches data dashboard for public use
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – State Attorney Melissa Nelson says she made a promise that there would be more transparency at her office, and it’s happening in digital form.
It’s a dashboard that’s been developed over the last three years. Now, people can see patterns of prosecution by going to a website.
Thirty-three prosecutorial performance indicators are measured to express the success of the prosecutor’s office, such as addressing serious crime, time management as well as racial and ethnic differences.
When asked whether she believes it will give the public a greater sense of transparency from the prosecutor’s office, Nelson responded: “That is certainly the primary goal. We committed to being transparent from the beginning of this work.”