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Wisconsin imprisons 1 in 36 Black adults. No state has a higher rate.
A new Sentencing Project report confirms the state’s deep racial disparities in incarceration, which one advocate calls ‘a slap in the face.’
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Bill Lueders was a young journalist at Madison’s Isthmus newspaper in the late 1980s when he learned the value of public records. Lueders wanted to see the complaints filed by citizens against the Madison police.
Your Right to Know: Fee recovery is key to transparency
Many states, including Wisconsin, have public records laws. But that doesn’t mean requesters always get the records they seek, or even that the laws are followed. What provisions in a state’s laws are most associated with compliance?
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News stories about a recent groundwater study are causing unfounded concerns about people getting sick from farming practices in Kewaunee County.
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Wisconsin Watch adds two new reporters, says goodbye to record number of interns and fellows
Wisconsin Watch has added investigative reporters Mario Koran and Brenda Wintrode to the staff.
Gene Purcell, head of Wisconsin Public Media and the board of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, remembered as visionary leader
Gene Purcell, the top Wisconsin public broadcasting leader and chair of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism board of directors, has died of injuries from a motorcycle crash.
Wisconsin Watch and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service awarded $1.4 million to strengthen news ecosystem
The American Journalism Project has jointly awarded the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS) $1.4 million over three years to support their efforts to reshape the local news ecosystem in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin.
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