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HOME Contact Us About Us MEMBERS BOARD STAFF CALENDAR NEWS LINKS DOCUMENTS	Committee on Effective Strategies for Community Justice Endorses TIP! After many meetings and long hours of work, the Committee on Effective Strategies for Community Justice endorses the principles of TIP. To see the work of Legislators, Judges, Prosecutors and Community Representatives read the Community Justice Act Executive Summary. If you agree with the summary, please feel free to fill out an Endorsement Form and mail it to the WISDOM office 3767 E. Underwood Ave. Cudahy, WI 53110 or e-mail the endorsement form to: effectivejustice@sbcglobal.net. You will need to include your e-mail address as an electronic signature. WISDOM TIP POSITION PAPER _______________ WISCONSIN CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO INVEST $22 MILLION TO GIVE JUDGES TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS Faith communities from around Wisconsin stand together to call on Wisconsin’s Governor and Legislature to invest in healing and hope in the 2007-09 state budget. Wisconsin has tried and failed to solve its problems through retribution and punishment. After nearly two decades of unrestrained incarceration and prison-building, our state: To read the remainder of the WISDOM TIP POSITION PAPER click here. · To view the Justice Strategies report "Treatment Instead of Prison" A Roadmap for Sentencing and Correctional Policy Reform in Wisconsin" Click on the Picture. Read the "Controlling Cocaine: Supply versus Demand Programs" study by clicking on the graph. The Cost of Enforcement Relative to Treatment To View a printable version of the Violent Crime -WI & MN 1960-2000 graph: Click on the Graph To View a printable version of the WI & MN Prison Populations 1977-2001 graph: Click on the Graph Read the Jail and Prison Inmates... department of Justice Bulletin which highlights the drop in State Prisons, by using alternatives to Prison by clicking on the graph. Testimony given by WISDOM to Assembly sub-committee on Corrections and the Courts of the Wisconsin State Legislature March 3^rd 2004. To read a letter from the TIP Committee Co-Chairperson, Conor Williams to Chairman Bies please click the above title..	Treatment Instead of Prison Civil Rights of Immigrants Education Funding Equity Health Care Director's Blog Director's Report Archive Contact Legislators Common Destiny Many Faces, One Common Destiny Suggested Reading Sustaining Member Form WISDOM Leads

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