Parole campaign

Wisconsin Parole Campaign
Did you know that there are parole eligible men (truly rehabilitated men) who are being denied parole
year after year?

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WHY ARE WE SPENDING $20,000 to $60,000 A YEAR PER PRISONER TO INCARCERATE REHABILITATED MEN?
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We're not talking about an 18-year-old who committed a crime yesterday or last week, and doesn't even understand how selfish and terrifying he is to his own community and family. For those kinds of people need to be captured and rehabilitated.

The travesty we're talking about are those once 18-year-old's who have been incarcerated for 15 or 20 years so far, and have been parole eligible for the last 5 or more of those years, yet they're purposely being denied parole year after year. We're talking about men who have matured, developed an adult's perspective on life, and can clearly be seen as rehabilitated even by the most untrained eye. Men who have been model-inmates, completing several educational, vocational and life enhancing programs.

Paroling rehabilitated men who have proven themselves deserving of a second chance will 1.) ease the over-crowding. 2.) give a changed man a second chance, 3.) most importantly, create room for those who are committing serious crimes as you read these very words! There are rehabilitated men who need help, opportunity, and support. They have family, friends, and jobs that are lined up awaiting their arrival, but the secret hidden agenda of parole abuse is prolonging (year after year) the second chance of countless, changed, rehabilitated men who have no voice! (a prisoner in oakhill)

We welcome anyone viewing this web to contact FFUP at swansol@mwt.net, to submit their own stories.

2008 rally in front of Department of Corrections by Milwaukee family members and Coalition of activists

Two juvenile offenders present their cases for parole and vision for new reentry plan for rehabilitated juvenile offenders
Roy Rogers
Andrae Bridges

Rodosvaldo Pozo

Graphs and statistics paroles in last decade
HOW MUCH TIME IS ENOUGH ??
by Harlan Richards

If a man has shown clear signs of rehabilitation and has reached his predetermined (by the judge) parole eligibility date, then why exactly is the Wisconsin Department of Probation and Parole's hidden agenda to constantly keep denying a man parole year after year?

Standing Bear tells his story
essay: perceptions of parole

Ron Schilling,, a man who has much to offer society. Here is another view of the parole

More stories coming = Wisconsin alone has over 4000 parole elligible men

View blog of parole-ready prisoners, ever growing as prisoners submit their stories.

Good facts to know: our national disgrace