The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) voted today for the Special Session bill that delays all the BadgerCare changes until April 1, 2014, and also extends the state’s high risk plan (HIRSP) until that date. The bill was approved by a vote of 11 to 2, with two Democrats voting against the proposal because of the delay in coverage for...
For the past few months, Governor Walker has been talking with pride about the fact that the biennial budget bill ensures that Wisconsin’s health insurance system won’t have a gap in coverage for adults below the poverty level. For the first several months of 2014, that won’t be the case if the legislature approves the Governor’s...
With the relatively recent US Supreme Court (USSC) decision that prohibits mandatory life without parole sentences for individuals who committed crimes while under the age of 18, a couple key issues are making their way through state courts, including: (1) are excessively long sentences given in lieu of JLWOP essentially a life sentence...
As WCCF works with others in the Wisconsin 2nd Chance Alliance to raise the age of adult court jurisdiction to age 18 for first-time, non-violent youth we take note that a recent report, Removing Youth from the Adult Criminal Justice System, published by the Campaign for Youth Justice highlights changes in 23 states between 2001 and...
A research brief by Jeffrey Butts, Violent Youth Crime in the U.S. Falls to New 32-Year Low, shows that after controlling for the size of population the rate of juvenile arrests per 100,000 youth peaked in 1994 at around 500 and hit a new low in 2012 of 190. There was a slight upsurge in 2008, but every year between 2009 and 2012, the...
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