Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States.

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Why is Wisconsin’s prison system such a ‘mess,’ and what can be done to fix it?
Deteriorating prisons, truth-in-sentencing, Act 10: Reasons for problems abound, while solutions remain elusive
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/06/why-is-wisconsins-prison-system-such-a-mess-what-can-be-done-to-fix-it/

Prison behind bars
Waupun Correctional Institution is shown on Aug. 29, 2024, in Waupun, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)


Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States.

Wisconsin Watch and other newsrooms in recent years have reported on criminal charges against staff following prison deaths, medical errors and delayed health care and lengthy prison lockdowns linked to staffing shortages in Wisconsin prisons.

The state prison population has surged past 23,000 people, with nearly triple that number on probation or parole. Meanwhile, staff vacancies are increasing again across the Department of Corrections.

A reader called this situation a “mess” and asked how we got here and what can be done to fix it.

The road to mass incarceration




Safer Prisons. Safer Communities.
Wisconsin is dealing with an unsafe and dangerous prison system. @WisconsinWatch
reports it currently incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States, and suffers from severe understaffing.

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