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Wisconsin inmates report despair, little counseling in solitary confinement that can stretch on for years - Wisconsin Watch

April 15th, 2017
Wisconsin prison officials quietly changed mental health status of inmates in solitary, psychologist says
Nearly 30 years in isolation: An inmate reflects on time in solitary
Dee J. Hall interviews LaRon McKinley about his 28 years in solitary.
Alexandra Hall reports on solitary confinement for WPR
Coburn Dukehart and Dee J. Hall discuss WCIJ’s reporting on WORT with Mike Wagner.
Dee J. Hall talks about solitary confinement on WPR’s “Central Time”. (Starts at 22:25)
We interviewed 65 inmates held in administrative confinement. Here’s what their lives are like.
Our “Cruel and Unusual?” series examines Wisconsin’s prison system, including legislation affecting prisoners and their families.
Waupun Correctional Institution inmate Cesar DeLeon said he has punched the wall until his fist is bloody to give himself “a sense of reality” during 15 years in prison in which he has rotated in and out of solitary confinement.
Brandon Christian said he fantasizes about the violence he will commit if he ever leaves solitary, where he has been for more than seven years. One time, allowed additional time out of his cell for good behavior, Christian attacked another inmate.
“Someone was talking crap about me and I didn’t know who so I just picked someone and stabbed him,” Christian, who is serving time at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, wrote in response to a survey by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
After two and a half years in isolation — spending at least 22 hours a day alone in a tiny, solid-walled cell — fellow Boscobel prisoner Ernesto Cervantes wrote in response to the survey that he is no longer capable of “normal human interaction.”
“I have not been able to function properly in a social setting,” Cervantes, 35, said of his experience after release from administrative confinement, a status with no specified end date. “I think others are talking about me and feel watched. I also feel like I have lost proper comprehension as when people are speaking to me it sounds like gibberish noise.”
These are some of the voices of Wisconsin prisoners kept in administrative confinement— a little-known category of solitary that the state Department of Corrections describes as “an involuntary non-punitive status” for inmates who pose “a serious threat to life, property, self, staff or other inmates, or to the security of the facility.”
The agency says these inmates are so dangerous that they must be confined for months, years — even decades — in a cell the size of a parking space with no human contact at least 22 hours a day.
State Department of Corrections officials denied reporters’ requests to interview inmates in person about their experiences in administrative confinement, so the Center mailed surveys to more than 100 who had been held in 2016.
The Center’s survey — conducted in the wake of an inmate hunger strike launched in June aimed at ending long-term solitary confinement in Wisconsin — asked about prisoners’ living conditions, mental health status, whether they received regular meals and whether they had committed or been a victim of violence while in administrative confinement.
Sixty-five inmates, many of whom have committed horrific crimes including multiple murders, violent attacks and sexual assault, responded to the surveys.
One respondent to the Center’s survey was in solitary for about 28 years; another has served 20 years.
The results of the survey were stark:
One Wisconsin Secure Program Facility prisoner, Eddie King, 49, reported a positive reaction, saying administrative confinement gives inmates “the opportunity to change their behavior and thinking.”
How to manage such violent or non-compliant inmates — without worsening their behavior or mental health problems — is a big challenge for prison systems. Because of the negative effects of long-term indefinite solitary confinement, Colorado has largely ended this practice, which a top United Nations expert has said is equivalent to torture after 15 days.
We interviewed 65 inmates held in administrative confinement. Here’s what they say their lives are like. Video produced by Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
In 2016, seven states — California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska and New Jersey — approved some restrictions on solitary or new reporting requirements, although New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed his state’s legislation, which would have prohibited use of solitary for non-disciplinary reasons.
In 2015, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections implemented policies — although not all inmates were aware of the changes — to reduce the amount of time inmates spend in solitary for disciplinary reasons and narrowed the types of offenses that can land them there. It also has made moves to remove prisoners with serious mental illnesses from solitary and to require that psychological staff provide input when such inmates are facing placement in solitary, spokesman Tristan Cook said.
The result is a large drop in inmates in all forms of solitary confinement from a high of 1,362 in March 2014 to 1,073 as of Feb. 28, Cook said. Of those, 93 were in administrative confinement.
“DOC has made significant reforms to the restrictive housing process with the goal of minimizing … (its) usage for all inmates and eliminating the use of restrictive housing for inmates with serious mental illnesses,” he wrote in an email.
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As of Oct. 1, 2015, Wisconsin held about 3.7 percent of its inmates in solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day, 15 continuous days or more, compared to a national average of about 4.9 percent, according to a study released in November by the Association of State Correctional Officials and Yale Law School. The study, based on surveys of 48 correctional systems including the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, found that nearly all had made or were planning to make changes to reduce the use of isolation.
“While restricted housing once was seen as central to prisoner management, by 2016 many prison directors and organizations … have defined restricted housing as a practice to use only when absolutely necessary and for only as long as absolutely required,” the report found.
Wisconsin is one of 17 jurisdictions that told the ASCA/Yale survey it does not routinely track how long inmates are in solitary.
“Administrative segregation generally had no fixed endpoint, and several systems did not keep track of the numbers of continuous days that people remained in isolation,” the authors found. “In the 24 jurisdictions reporting on this question, a substantial number indicated that prisoners remained in segregation for more than three years.”
There are signs that Wisconsin is beginning to improve conditions for inmates held in solitary confinement. Gov. Scott Walker’s 2017-19 Department of Corrections budget request includes changes to solitary to boost mental health care and to allow some inmates with serious mental illnesses to spend up to 20 hours a week out of their cells for programming and recreation.
Former Waupun prison psychologist Bradley Boivin said that the lack of an end date while in administrative confinement can be especially damaging to inmates’ mental health, creating a “prison within a prison.” The Center approached Boivin last year after inmates raised questions about why he had left DOC.
“Imagine being told you’re going to prison for five years or you’re going to prison for as long as we want to keep you there,” Boivin said. “That’s going to have two different impacts on the same person … The ambiguity of it creates additional levels of psychological distress for the inmates.”
Boivin said he resigned after trying unsuccessfully to make changes from within at Waupun.
“It wasn’t about correction at all,” he said. “It was about perpetual punitive behavior (towards the inmates). That’s what I couldn’t be a part of anymore, I guess.”
In solitary units, Boivin said, inmates receive clinical attention according to their mental health status. Individuals with the highest classifications are required to be seen once a week. Inmates with a classification of less severe mental illness are seen every two weeks. The brief sessions take place through the inmate’s cell door, allowing others to hear.
Boivin believes these check-ins, referred to by prisoners as “drive-bys,” are insufficient.
“There’s nothing clinical or therapeutic about (weekly check-ins) whatsoever. It’s really just a quick check-in,” Boivin said. “That’s it, they’ll say, ‘I’m fine,’ and you walk away.”
These brief encounters are often the only routine clinical contact inmates in solitary confinement receive, he said. Boivin said at times when he attempted to set up individual sessions he got “pushback” from security.
“It (check-in) doesn’t come close to any sort of psychological service in the community, or any setting. It doesn’t really provide the opportunity for the clinician to address any psychological issues, any risk, in any meaningful way,” he said, adding there’s no privacy, loud noises and guards often are nearby.
“There’s no way to gather information about a person’s mental health condition … in two or three minutes,” he said, calling the practice “inadequate.”
In the surveys, most inmates presented bleak descriptions of life in solitary confinement.
“I’ve tried many times to hang myself with a sheet, overdose on medication. I start to see things or people who isn’t there; I talk to myself,” wrote Quenton Thompson, 35, who is serving a life sentence at the Boscobel prison for killing a pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child. “I feel as though people are trying to kill me. I hear voices in my head.”
Shirell Watkins, 37, said he has tried twice to hang himself while in solitary confinement. Watkins, who is serving a 25-year sentence for reckless homicide, said he has spent years in various forms of solitary at three institutions, most recently Green Bay Correctional Institution.
He described suffering from the effects of isolation, including “severe mental anguishment, depression, sleeplessness, high level of stress, constant self-communication, headaches, weight fluctuation, eye aches, hyper-reaction to situations/incidents, isolation/loneliness, short attention span, poor concentration and at times poor memory and difficulty concentrating.”
In early 2016, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that one staff member was fired, one resigned and another retired from the DOC-run Milwaukee County Secure Detention Facility after they were caught on audiotape taunting an inmate and withholding his medication. He was being held in solitary confinement.
Mark Smith, 47, currently housed at Boscobel, said he has had nine stints on suicide watch. He claims that when he becomes irritated, officers sometimes withhold his medications for conditions including intermittent explosive disorder, polysubstance dependence and antisocial personality disorder. For him, administrative confinement is “a total hell.”
Smith has been incarcerated since 2002 on burglary and recklessly endangering safety as a habitual criminal.
Manuel Salas, 30, wrote that he had attempted suicide a “number of times” over his 10 years in solitary, some of it spent in administrative confinement. Salas, who is serving time for arson and was released on extended supervision in August, said staff had retaliated against him by withholding medicine he takes for post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep and anxiety.
Thompson, the inmate at Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, described similar treatment.
“Each day I’m to take my medication, but some officers on first shift will pass me up while I’m at the door waiting for meds,” wrote Thompson, who said he has antisocial personality disorder and hears voices. “It just might be a day the officers feel like they wanna come to work just to give me a hard time.”
Boivin used to hear these kinds of complaints from inmates, and he usually did not believe them. But the psychologist said he witnessed it himself in 2015.
“The sergeant was really upset at a particular inmate,” Boivin said. “She said, ‘He’s a d—head, he doesn’t even deserve his meds,’ and I reported that.”
The problem, Boivin said, is that untrained non-medical staff should not be administering medicine. DOC has acknowledged the practice is “not acceptable,” requesting more than $1 million over two years for trained medical staff to administer medication at the embattled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons.
“Medication delivery by non-health care staff is recognized on a national level as an unsafe practice,” the agency said.
Cook did not answer questions about whether DOC is considering changes to how medicine is administered in Wisconsin’s adult prisons.
In Wisconsin, some of the harshest treatment is reserved for inmates who want to kill themselves. Boivin said he personally and professionally felt these suicide watch placements were more torturous than solitary confinement itself.
When inmates make suicidal threats or harm themselves, they can be placed in suicide watch, known as observation. Clinical staff make the final decision and are responsible for monitoring inmates in that status.
Once the inmate is taken into observation, he is confined in a cell with a bed made of a concrete and steel slab with a thin rubber mat. The prisoner wears a paper security gown or a quilted security smock. The lights are on 24 hours a day, and, initially, he is not allowed any property, even a book.
In extreme cases, inmates are strapped down, restrained at their shoulders, their wrists, their ankles and their knees, in an “eight-point restraint.” Boivin said he has seen inmates restrained for hours or days, nude except for a washcloth covering their genitals.
“It’s humiliating, it’s degrading,” Boivin said. “They’re just kind of there, like a tied down animal.”
In 2015, there were 80 inmates with serious mental illnesses in solitary who had a total of 132 placements in suicide watch, according to a DOC budget request.
Observation status can go on for weeks or months, Boivin said. After a couple of days, Boivin said the “decompensation” is noticeable. Inmates’ eyes become bloodshot and watery, and they can become aggressive, delirious and eventually “shut down.” Sounds of other inmates taunting statements such as “Just do it!” can be heard, he said.
Inmates were asked to describe a typical day in administrative confinement. Many wrote of repetitiveness, spending the entire day in bed or that the “days blur into one another.” Reading, watching TV, working out in their cells or the “rec cage,” and writing letters are some of the ways inmates keep busy.
William Ledford, 54 — who is at Waupun serving 60 years for attempted homicide, armed robbery and other crimes as a repeat offender — detailed the monotony of his daily life.
“Wake up, read my Bible, watch the news, listen to some music, read, take a nap, have lunch, start the process all over again,” Ledford wrote. “Same thing over and over every day.”
He was in administrative confinement for about one and a half years for “repeated assaultive behavior” and “noncompliance with prison rules,” Cook said.
Some inmates say overwhelming isolation takes over their daily lives.
Eric Conner, 30, is at Boscobel serving 30 years on his most recent sentence after stabbing another inmate and injuring a correctional officer. Cook said in all, Conner has had 56 conduct reports since he was imprisoned in 2008 for murder. During his time in solitary, Conner wrote that he hears his victim telling him to kill or harm himself. “I’m stuck in the cell and have nothing to distract me from him,” he wrote.
Tony Caravella, 31, is serving 60 years on three counts of vehicular homicide. He reported being in administrative confinement for six months in 2016 at Wisconsin Secure Program Facility after spending years in solitary for repeated rule violations including assaulting another inmate.
“Administrative confinement has had effect on me for depression, anxiety and loss of self-worth and I crave human contact like a hug from my dad,” he wrote.
Before his incarceration, Caravella said he was not diagnosed with any mental illness, but now takes medications for depression, sleep, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Christian, 29, said he has been in solitary confinement for more than seven years — including 3 ½ years in administrative confinement — while serving a 29-year sentence at Wisconsin Secure Program Facility for first-degree sexual assault with a dangerous weapon and armed burglary. He describes being “unfeeling,” adding, “Life has no point.”
“I pace my cell for hours thinking about all the horrible things I’ve done and the horrible things I will do,” Christian wrote.
“I have no choice but to listen to people screaming, banging on their doors, or otherwise making noise. I think about what I’d do to those people if these doors would open.”
If he were returned to the general population, Christian wrote, he would have “no problem” assaulting an officer.
For about seven months, DeLeon participated in the hunger strike. Although the state had been force-feeding him through a nasal tube, at other times, DeLeon said in a letter, he went several days without any food or water, risking kidney failure.
“My hands and feet feel like they are on fire,” the Waupun inmate wrote, adding later, “Things are going to end up bad.”
A clip of a video taken by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections shows prisoner Cesar DeLeon being administered a forced tube feeding in Waupun Correction Institution on June 30, 2016.
Karina DeLeon felt her brother’s hunger strike was futile.
“The truth is if something happens to him, the system will continue the same way it always has,” Karina DeLeon said in Spanish, speaking in the living room of her family’s Milwaukee home. “He will be gone, and it will be as if nothing happened.”
DeLeon, 34, is serving a 55-year prison sentence on armed robbery and kidnapping charges. He also is facing trial for attempted homicide for stabbing a Columbia Correctional Institution staff member in 2014 with a scissors after he was denied a promotion at the prison library where he worked.
DeLeon’s violent behavior is what landed him in prison and what has kept him in various forms of solitary confinement for stretches during his 15 years in prison. At various times, he and his family have alleged that he has been mistreated by correctional officers, including a “use-of-force” incident on Dec. 5 that Cook said is under investigation.
Cook said DeLeon is in administrative confinement because of repeated assaultive behavior, security threat group activity, manufacture of weapons and other violations. “To date, he has refused to participate in programming that could result in his return to general population,” Cook wrote in an email.
During a video visit late last year, DeLeon showed a bruised arm to a reporter, saying the mark was from the choking, dragging and tasing he claimed to have experienced.
His mother, Rosa Landeros, visited him by video shortly after the alleged assault.
“He had memory loss and poor concentration, and that’s for how long he’s lasted without food,” Landeros said. “I saw him beat and in pain, his body was in pain. I saw him bad, truly bad.”
DeLeon said administrative confinement has no rehabilitative purpose. He called it a “torture technique.”
“It have deteriorated me psychologically, I’m constantly depress,” DeLeon wrote in response to the survey. “I punch the walls a lot. I do it until I bleed. I can’t understand why I have to do it, but the pain somehow gives me a sense of reality.”
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Wisconsin taxpayers lose out on millions after Gov. Scott Walker, lawmakers repeal anti-fraud law - Wisconsin Watch

November 5th, 2017
Broken Whistle explores Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on waste, fraud and abuse and the dwindling protections and incentives for whistleblowers in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s attack on waste and fraud leaves some whistleblowers, vulnerable residents behind
DOJ agent who blew the whistle in 2012 says experience ruined him
‘Qui tam’: The citizens’ sword
Managing Editor Dee J. Hall discusses the Center’s story on the repeal of the state False Claims Act on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time and  Newstalk 1510 AM in Milwaukee and talks about this series on WORT.
Wisconsin taxpayers have missed out on millions of dollars in settlements after state officials quietly eliminated one of the most effective tools for rooting out fraud in the $9 billion-a-year state Medicaid program, interviews and public records show.
It is a glaring exception to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s crusade aimed at eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in state government.
Wisconsin would have qualified for an estimated $11 million in additional settlement money from companies found to have defrauded the Medicaid program since 2013 if legislators and Walker had not weakened and then repealed the state False Claims Act.
That estimate was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism using methodology endorsed by Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit organization that advocates for whistleblowers and government efforts to root out fraud. The state Department of Justice declined to estimate the loss.
Asked in an email why Walker repealed the law, spokesman Tom Evenson did not address the question but instead highlighted the governor’s efforts to root out fraud and waste in Medicaid and FoodShare, which he said have saved taxpayers an estimated $150 million. Evenson also did not respond to an offer to have the state estimate the losses from the repeal of the False Claims Act.
Said Evenson: “The bottom line is that Medicaid fraud continues to be investigated and detected.”
The law had awarded whistleblowers and their attorneys up to 30 percent of penalties when companies were caught defrauding the state’s Medicaid program. The national average in such cases is much less, however — about 16 percent.
Business groups, which pushed Walker and the Legislature to repeal the law, derisively refer to such whistleblowers and their attorneys as “bounty hunters.”
In October, Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel announced that the state will receive $3.4 million of a nationwide settlement against the makers of EpiPen for allegedly underpaying rebates it owed to the Medicaid program, which is jointly funded by the state and federal governments.
“Mylan just discovered taking advantage of taxpayers comes at a high price,” Schimel said in a statement announcing the settlement involving EpiPen, which is used to counteract severe allergic reactions.
But the price Mylan will pay is tilted more toward reimbursing the federal government than giving money back to Wisconsin taxpayers, thanks to the repeal of the state False Claims Act in the 2015-17 state budget. That decision made Wisconsin ineligible for a larger share of the settlement, resulting in an estimated $695,430 less for the state in the EpiPen settlement, said Patrick Burns, associate director of Taxpayers Against Fraud.
Said Burns: “It starts to look like real money.”
Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, said Wisconsin is the only state to repeal its False Claims Act, a distinction he believes makes it one of the worst states in the country for whistleblowers.
Over the past 30 years, 88 percent of fraud cases brought on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which runs Medicaid, were filed by whistleblowers, according to figures provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. Between 1987 and 2016, the government initiated 907 cases, while whistleblowers brought 6,683 cases.
Such whistleblower cases, known as qui tam cases, also brought in more money than those launched by the government. Whistleblower cases filed on behalf of HHS brought in $27.8 billion to the federal government, with $4.6 billion going to whistleblowers and their attorneys. Cases initiated by the government brought in $6.1 billion. The figures do not include billions of dollars returned to states, nor do they include criminal fines levied against the companies, according to Taxpayers Against Fraud.
Efforts by former Democratic Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, to recoup millions of dollars for the state for other alleged prescription drug overbillings also have been thwarted — at least for now — by repeal of the act.
A Dane County Circuit Court judge ruled in May that Lautenschlager’s lawsuit against a group of pharmaceutical companies cannot proceed because it was filed after the Legislature repealed the state False Claims Act — although the alleged behavior occurred years earlier, from 2002 through 2011. Lautenschlager filed the case as a private citizen.
Lautenschlager has appealed that decision. The defendant drug companies — Actavis Mid Atlantic, Actavis Elizabeth, Par Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Forest Laboratories and Forest Pharmaceuticals — argue Judge Juan Colas got it right; such whistleblower cases are now barred in Wisconsin.
If the state’s former top prosecutor is successful, the companies would be forced to repay state taxpayers, and — under the old False Claims Act — an as-yet undetermined percentage would go to Lautenschlager and her attorney, former Deputy Attorney General Dan Bach.
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But the current attorney general, Schimel, has declined to participate in the litigation. That means Lautenschlager and Bach must bear the cost — and the risk — of pursuing the case.
“If we do not prevail on our appeal, the state will lose the opportunity to collect tens of millions of dollars,” Bach said. “The state settled all of the cases that were brought while Peg (Lautenschlager) was AG and collected a bundle.
“There is no good reason why the state would repeal a statute … that allows it to recover funds fraudulently obtained from the public,” he continued. “The repeal was done on one line in the middle of the massive budget bill. No debate, no explanation.”
Schimel spokesman Johnny Koremenos said the state had several reasons for declining to intervene, including that it “disagreed with the merits of the claim.”
“Even if the claims were meritorious and not stale and old, the state would still be entitled to at least 70 percent of the proceeds even after declining,” Koremenos wrote. “The state would have had little to gain from intervening in this lawsuit. Furthermore, there was no indication that defendants were amenable to settlement.
“We did not see that the resources needed to litigate these cases was worth the litigation risk.”
Bach does not buy that argument. He noted that the state under Lautenschlager brought suit in 2004 against 36 pharmaceutical companies “based on similar facts and the same legal theory” as the current case. After years of litigation, the case against Pharmacia resulted in a judgment of roughly $30 million.
“All of the other defendants wound up settling with the state, resulting in the recovery of tens of millions of dollars from defendants who had defrauded the state Medicaid program,” said Bach, who was Lautenschlager’s second-in-command at the time the original suit was filed.
In one of those settlements — inked by Schimel just last year — the DOJ settled with a handful of drug companies for $60 million, $10 million of which went to Miner, Barnhill and Galland, the law firm that had initiated the suit. The alleged overcharging of Medicaid, including the BadgerCare and SeniorCare programs, stretched back to 1993, according to the settlement.
Said Bach: “There is no statute of limitations or ‘staleness’ issue. Whatever reasons DOJ may have had for declining the opportunity to intervene in the current case, the lack of merit of these claims cannot plausibly be among them.”
The death of the state False Claims Act came in stages beginning in 2011, the year Walker was elected.
That year, federal officials notified Wisconsin that it must update its False Claims Act to meet new requirements or forfeit the extra 10 percent share of recoveries to the Medicaid program that states with qualifying False Claims Acts receive. The state declined.
Wisconsin was granted a two-year grace period to update the law but failed to do so, leading the state to become ineligible for the incentive payments beginning in 2013, the state Department of Justice confirmed.
Then in 2015, as part of the state’s two-year budget, the Legislature repealed the law, which had provided potentially millions of dollars in monetary incentives to both the state and whistleblowers who report Medicaid fraud.
The law — repealed with the encouragement of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state’s largest business lobby — had allowed individuals and their attorneys, called “relators,” to receive a portion of the penalty, depending on their contribution to uncovering the fraud.
Now that the state no longer has a False Claims Act, whistleblowers in Wisconsin have less incentive to come forward with fraud allegations — and the state is getting less money, according to attorneys who represent whistleblowers.
“Anyone who has weakened this law or repealed it is giving a green light to people to steal from the Wisconsin taxpayer,” said Kohn, whose National Whistleblower Center is a legal advocacy association for whistleblowers. “Now the most important tool for discouraging and preventing those rip-offs (at the state level) has been eliminated.”
Wisconsin’s law was enacted in 2007 after passage of the 2005 federal Deficit Reduction Act, which gave states that enacted False Claims Acts higher recoupments in Medicaid fraud cases.
Thirty states have such laws; as of 2015, 13 states had laws that qualified them to receive additional payments when their Medicaid programs are defrauded, according a Seton Hall Law School study.
Nationally, there has been a coordinated effort by business groups — particularly those representing government contractors — to prevent states from adopting False Claims Acts. In West Virginia, lawmakers voted down a proposed law after the state’s Chamber of Commerce lobbied against it.
After Wisconsin’s Legislature killed the state False Claims Act, Burns wrote, “At a time when 25 percent of Wisconsin’s budget is being spent on Medicaid, winking at fraud in that system is the height of fiscal irresponsibility.”
Money recovered under the state’s False Claims Act is shared between the state and the federal government, which both fund Medicaid.
When Wisconsin’s law was still compliant, the whistleblower and his or her attorney would receive their shares, with the remainder split about 50-50 between the state and the feds. But after it refused to update the law, Wisconsin became eligible for just about 40 percent of the share of the recoveries.
To illustrate the financial impact, if the state were defrauded of $20 million, Wisconsin and the federal government could recover $60 million from the company or individual responsible since both the old state law and current federal law call for triple damages in such cases.
Under the old state law, Wisconsin and the federal government would have each received $24.9 million — with the remaining up to $10.2 million going to the whistleblower and the whistleblower’s attorney.
When Wisconsin’s law was non-compliant, from 2013-15, the state would have recovered only 40 percent — $19.92 million. Now that a state False Claims Act does not exist in Wisconsin, the state can recover $24 million — but that is still nearly $1 million less than when the law was in effect and compliant with federal law.
In 2015, when the Legislature was contemplating repealing the law, the Wisconsin DOJ told the Legislative Fiscal Bureau that it expected to recover even more for the state, according to correspondence provided by the bureau. The correspondence does not mention the 10 percent incentive payment the state stood to lose.
“I do not believe DOJ made clear to our office that repealing the (whistleblower incentive) provision would place the state out of compliance with requirements of the False Claims Act, and that the state’s share of (Medicaid) recoveries would decrease as a result,” Charles Morgan, program supervisor for the LFB said in an email interview. “Had we known this was the case, we would have presented that information to legislators as they considered the budget amendment.”
Rather than update a law that allowed for additional retrieval of funds on behalf of Wisconsin taxpayers, the Legislature repealed it, and at a notable time: Several states were moving to implement or strengthen their False Claims Acts that year.
Democratic lawmakers in 2010 proposed expanding the False Claims Act to allow individuals to sue any business contracting with the state for alleged fraud. But that measure was defeated in the face of stiff opposition from business.
Among them was the Wisconsin Civil Justice Council, a coalition of business groups that had called the False Claims Act “a favorite tool of plaintiffs’ lawyers.”
“These laws essentially turn private individuals into bounty hunters for the state, often with multi-million dollar rewards,” the council said.
During the 2015-16 legislative session, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce went a step further, calling for repeal of the law. The group charged that the False Claims Act provided “an incentive for private attorneys to sue businesses for alleged fraud” and that the state should, “instead, maintain this authority with the experienced investigators within the state Department of Justice.”
WMC did not respond to requests for an interview.
“By awarding the person who brings a private cause of action a sizable portion of the proceeds, (the act) reduces the amounts recovered for the state’s Medical Assistance program,” the group’s president, Bill Smith, claimed in a 2015 letter to Walker.
The governor did not propose repeal in his budget, but the Legislature did. Walker, who had the option of vetoing the repeal, left it intact.
No committee discussion or debate occurred over the 2015 repeal. The motion was introduced in the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee by co-chairs Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, and Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills. They did not respond to several requests for comment.
Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, applauded Walker for signing the repeal into law, saying it would stop incentivizing “private bounty hunter plaintiffs” and was more efficient since it left prosecuting such fraud solely in the hands of the state.
State officials declined several requests to calculate the amount of money Wisconsin may have lost since the law became non-compliant or to verify the Center’s calculations.
Lautenschlager said it is difficult to estimate the total loss, since the amount would depend on the size and number of cases brought each year. Another factor would be whether or not a whistleblower was involved and to what extent.
But she has no doubt the state is forfeiting a significant amount of money and that whistleblowers are less likely to initiate actions.
“Clearly, the numbers would be at least one-third less than under the old law,” Lautenschlager said, referring to the loss of the 10 percent incentive. In addition, “there is much less incentive to spend the money to bring a case if damages are reduced.”
She rejected the argument that Wisconsin’s law benefited only private plaintiffs.
Opponents said “all it was was a way for trial attorneys to get rich, even though a whole bunch of the money went to the government,” Lautenschlager said.
Nola Hitchcock Cross, a Milwaukee attorney who has won multimillion-dollar settlements involving Medicaid and Medicare fraud nationally, said there is less financial incentive now to report Medicaid fraud in Wisconsin than in some other states.
Asked why she believed Wisconsin repealed its False Claims Act, Cross responded: “Corporate greed.”
“There isn’t an interest in preserving taxpayer funds regarding Medicaid,” Cross said, adding that eliminating the law “shoots the taxpayer in the foot.”
But according to Assistant Attorney General Katie Wilson, the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control and Elder Abuse Unit still receives referrals from many sources, including a hotline set up for tipsters. After dipping for a few years, settlements were up in fiscal year 2016 — although, the Center found, not as much as they could be if the state had a False Claims Act.
Of the $81 million recovered by the Medicaid fraud unit in 2016, Wisconsin recovered $20.9 million under False Claims Act theories. According to a calculation endorsed by Taxpayers Against Fraud, that amount could have been $26.2 million if Wisconsin had its own False Claims Act in compliance with the federal law. Officials at the Medicaid fraud unit would not confirm these numbers.
Wilson declined to provide an opinion as to whether the state is recovering less because of the law’s repeal. Morgan, of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, said it is unknown what the impact of the law’s repeal has been.
Tim Samuelson, then-director of the Medicaid fraud unit, said there has not been enough time without the law to determine if it is affecting people’s willingness to expose Medicaid fraud. Samuelson has since been appointed by Walker to a vacancy on the Dane County Circuit Court.
“What I see is that we still get citizen complaints; we still get complaints from former employees of facilities,” Samuelson said. “I know that many of these cases are still being filed under the repealed act based on facts that arose prior to repeal, so we’re still getting those types of cases, and I don’t know that there’s been enough time for us to have an opinion as to any causes or results from repeal.”
Reporter Cara Lombardo contributed to this story, which was produced as part of an investigative reporting class in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication under the direction of Dee J. Hall, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s managing editor. The Center’s collaborations with journalism students are funded in part by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment at UW-Madison. The nonprofit Center (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.
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Public Housing Goes Smoke Free - WPR
Shamane Mills
November 30, 2016
Public housing will soon be smoke free. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a final rule Wednesday. While some cities across the country have already made the change, Wisconsin’s larger housing authorities have not.
Wisconsin has 130 local housing authorities; 73 already offer at least one residence that is smoke free, according to the American Lung Association. Dona Wininsky, with the Association’s Wisconsin chapter, said there’s still a long way to go before all public housing is smoke free.
“They do tend to be the smaller, more rural housing authorities that may have only one or a handful of properties versus the larger housing authorities: Dane County, city of Milwaukee, city of Madison,” she said. “So that’s really where the work ahead lies.”
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Tom Conrad, the interim director of housing operations for Madison, said they will have all public housing smoke free by January 2018. Currently, about 20 percent of Madison’s public housing is smoke free – within the individual units; common areas are already smoke free because of Wisconsin’s smoking ban. Conrad said they will use guidelines from HUD and focus on assisting people to comply, not enforcement.
“So they’re encouraging us to have a comprehensive practice of assisting folks to break the habit, create policies that make it a lease violation to smoke on the property but not to evict people for that; use that only as a last resort,” Conrad said.
Rob Dicke, executive director of Dane County Housing Authority, said he believes there will be health benefits for residents and financial benefits for the housing authority. Smoking causes more wear and tear on apartments which he says can be costly.
“I’ve seen apartments where you can’t cover up the stains on the walls with one coat of paint,” Dicke said. “You often have to prime the walls and then come back and paint them a second time.”
But enforcement is both a logistical and morale concern for the Dane County Housing Authority, which has public housing – duplexes, apartments and single family homes – spread across a wide area.
“So I’m not sure from an enforcement standpoint how easy its going to be to tell someone who’s living in a single family home that they don’t have the right to smoke in that home,” Dicke said.
A resident in public housing could be evicted under the HUD rule, and Dicke said he is concerned they would be unable to find alternative housing.
“That is something we’re concerned about because again we are talking about vulnerable people that don’t have the funds, that don’t have many options about where they’re going to live,” he said. “And evicting them from public housing for behavioral issues is very certainly likely to cause homelessness. That’s something we want to avoid.”
Housing authorities will have 18 months to implement HUD’s smoke-free policy, which was created because of the negative health effects of secondhand smoke. The Lung Association said asthma affects many low-income residents in federally subsidized housing and exposure to secondhand smoke can trigger asthma attacks.
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Assessing School Progress With Milwaukee Succeeds | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Black Male Incarceration Devastates Milwaukee Neighborhoods | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Helps Health Care Providers Detect Trafficked Youth | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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City Year's 'Near Peers' Keep Milwaukee Students on Track | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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Community Leaders Propose Solutions in Wake of Weekend Violence | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Community Leaders Push for Action on Chronic Problems Facing African Americans in Milwaukee | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Connecting Minority Workers With Foxconn Jobs: The Key May Be Community Organizations | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Could Lead-Contaminated Water Lead To Infant Death? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Could Technology Help Slow Reckless Drivers in Milwaukee? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Counselors: Wisconsin Must Invest More Resources, Time into Helping Offenders with Mental Illnesses | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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County Proposal Would Ban Landlords From Discriminating Against People With Housing Vouchers | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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In Disparate Community, Local YWCA Works to Make Racial Justice Within Reach | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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DOJ Warns 9 Communities - Including Milwaukee - to Follow Immigration Law | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Dontre Hamilton Documentary Comes Home to Milwaukee | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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Educators Share Ideas at National Conference in Milwaukee on Urban Schools | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Effects of Childhood Trauma Reverberate Through Generations of Milwaukeeans | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Environmental Health & Justice Issues Figure Into Milwaukee’s Segregated Landscape | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Expert: If Lead is Present in Plumbing System, A Potential Hazard Exists | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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With Federal Funds Running Out, Milwaukee County's Community Prosecution Program In Jeopardy | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Ferguson Killing Inspires Young Black Activists | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Fire and Police Commission Gives Chief Flynn More Time To Revise Pursuit Policy | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Fire and Police Commission Requests MPD Audit of Sterling Brown Incident | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Former Milwaukee Inmates: 'I Am More Than My Record' | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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As Funding Wanes, Bus Routes Connecting Milwaukeeans With Suburban Jobs May Disappear | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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'Grace Weber's Music Lab' To Provide Students With Artistic Opportunity | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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Group Changes Minds About Inner City Neighborhoods | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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Group Pays Homage to Past, While Fighting for the Future of Black Milwaukee | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Groups Pledge $75,000 to Help Some Milwaukee Families Buy Water Filters | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Harley Riders, Beware: Crashes Are Rising | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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In Hashtag Protest, 'Black Twitter' Shows Its Strength | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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High Poverty School Districts Would Benefit From Proposed Wisconsin DPI Budget | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Homelessness, Housing, and HIV: What are the Connections? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

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Mayor Barrett Proposes Milwaukee Hire Ex-Offenders to Fill Potholes | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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As Mayor Unveiled Budget, One Milwaukeean Wants Tending Lead Laterals To Happen | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Milwaukee Advocacy Group Says Mayor's Lead in Water Efforts Fall Woefully Short | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Is Milwaukee Any Closer to a Comprehensive Lead Pipe Replacement Plan? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published April 28, 2017 at 2:08 PM CDT

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Milwaukee Area Has Wide Gap Between Black And White Joblessness | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 24, 2017 at 6:00 AM CDT

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Milwaukee Artist B~Free Takes on Domestic Abuse in 'No More' | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Audrey Nowakowski
Published November 16, 2016 at 10:35 AM CST


text:
Milwaukee Artist Della Wells Explores the Unseen in 'Alice's Tea Party' | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Bonnie North
Published December 14, 2016 at 12:57 PM CST


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Milwaukee-Based Program Offers Support, Solutions To Help Women Exit Sex Trade | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published December 21, 2017 at 5:00 AM CST


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Milwaukee Choice School Sues MPS Over Transportation Costs | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 23, 2017 at 10:46 AM CDT

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Milwaukee County Court Succeeds in Helping Vets Overcome Addiction | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published January 20, 2015 at 1:00 AM CST


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Milwaukee County Drug Court Committed to Reuniting Families; Giving Addicts Second Chance | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 22, 2018 at 9:25 AM CDT

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Milwaukee County Jail Makes Facility Changes, in Light of Assessment | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published April 6, 2018 at 11:00 AM CDT

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Milwaukee County Receives Grants to Combat Opioid Addiction | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM CST


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Milwaukee County Supervisors Throw Out Proposed Wheel Tax Increase | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 6, 2017 at 6:23 PM CST


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Milwaukee County's Housing First Initiative, One Year In | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published September 21, 2016 at 1:42 PM CDT

author: Joy Powers


text:
Milwaukee Educare Helps Low-Income Preschoolers Learn By Connecting With Parents | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published April 12, 2017 at 11:59 AM CDT


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Milwaukee Educators Debate Vouchers, As School Choice Reappears on National Stage | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published December 1, 2016 at 7:00 AM CST


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Milwaukee Filmmaker Guides Child Stars to Rave Reviews in 'Mister and Pete' | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Bonnie North
Published September 27, 2013 at 4:38 PM CDT


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Milwaukee: A Hub for Child Sex Trafficking | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM CDT


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Milwaukee Immigrant Advocates Say Executive Order is Progess but Not Enough | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 21, 2014 at 7:51 AM CST


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Milwaukee Lawmaker Floats Annexation As A Way to Deal With Transportation Concerns | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published December 13, 2017 at 6:00 AM CST


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Milwaukee May Sell Certain Vacant Lots For $1 | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published June 25, 2014 at 1:25 PM CDT

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Milwaukee Mayor Lifts Policy Prohibiting Health Dept Staff From Communicating With Elected Officials | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published February 1, 2018 at 3:18 PM CST


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Milwaukee NAACP Leader: We Need to Review Policing | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 26, 2014 at 2:37 PM CST


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Milwaukee Partners With Northwestern Mutual  to Put Residents to Work | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published June 10, 2014 at 1:00 AM CDT

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Milwaukee Reports Big Decrease in Teen Pregnancies | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM CDT


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Milwaukee School Board Passes Billion Dollar Budget | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 30, 2018 at 1:00 PM CDT

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Milwaukee To Demolish 200 Abandoned Homes This Summer | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 29, 2014 at 1:00 AM CDT

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Milwaukee Voters Reject Notion of $60 Wheel Tax | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published April 4, 2017 at 9:54 PM CDT

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text:
Milwaukee Voucher Program Turns 25: Student Performance | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published November 18, 2014 at 1:00 AM CST


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Milwaukee's Educational Leaders Work On Cultural Sensitivity Ahead of New School Year | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published July 27, 2017 at 9:53 AM CDT

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With Milwaukee's Health Department Under Scrutiny, Common Council Seeks Solutions | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published July 20, 2018 at 11:30 AM CDT

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text:
Milwaukee's Trauma in Our Community Conference Aims to 'Inform and Unite' | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published June 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM CDT

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text:
MLK Jr. Day Inspires Reflections on Race and Faith | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published January 20, 2014 at 5:13 PM CST


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Moratorium Lifted, Energy Shutoffs May Begin | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published April 14, 2014 at 3:59 PM CDT

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Mothers Against Gun Violence Reminds Community that Life Insurance is Vital | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 2, 2017 at 10:23 AM CDT


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Mothers March to Sheriff Clarke’s Office, Call for His Resignation over Jail Deaths | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published December 9, 2016 at 12:50 PM CST


text:
MPD Officers: Community Relations Improving, Even If It's Not Always Seen | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 30, 2018 at 12:13 PM CDT


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MPS Students Question Water Quality at North Division High School | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 4, 2017 at 5:30 AM CDT

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A Nation Engaged: Job-Seeking Milwaukeeans Clear On How To Create Opportunities for More Americans | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 20, 2016 at 5:00 AM CDT


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National Expert Shares Thoughts on Environmental Justice | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Susan Bence
Published March 10, 2017 at 4:08 PM CST

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Neighborhood-Based Approach Being Used To Redevelop Milwaukee's Westlawn Gardens | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 18, 2017 at 2:18 PM CDT


text:
New Director of Women's Health at The Zablocki VA Medical Center | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Bonnie North
Published September 20, 2017 at 3:29 PM CDT


text:
New Loan Options Encourage Wisconsin's African-American Entrepreneurship | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published November 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM CST


text:
New Milwaukee Institute Pulls Together Experts to Create Urban Food Systems | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Susan Bence
Published January 31, 2014 at 10:07 AM CST


text:
Procedure for Unemployment Benefits Goes into Effect October 2013 | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published September 5, 2013 at 3:17 PM CDT


text:
New Report Explores Wisconsin's 'Atypical' Expungement Law | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published June 7, 2018 at 3:43 PM CDT

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text:
No Struggle, No Progress: Dr. Howard Fuller's Story | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Audrey Nowakowski
Published September 18, 2014 at 3:42 PM CDT


text:
Nurse-Managed Health Clinics Help Fill Primary Care Gap in Milwaukee | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 14, 2013 at 4:39 PM CDT


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One Milwaukee Woman's Quest to Rid Her Soil of Lead | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 9, 2016 at 9:16 AM CDT


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Past and Future of Milwaukee County Transit | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 1, 2013 at 9:49 AM CDT


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PHOTOS: Bus Tour Shows Off New Developments in Harambee Neighborhood | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published January 31, 2014 at 1:26 PM CST


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Photos: Inside Milwaukee's Vacant Homes | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published January 3, 2014 at 12:28 PM CST


text:
Police Seek End to "Get Even" Violence | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 21, 2014 at 9:19 AM CDT

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text:
Policing in Milwaukee: Share Your Questions & Stories | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 15, 2018 at 3:15 PM CDT

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Wisconsin is the Only State Where Black and White Women's Life Expectancy Gap Grew | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published August 7, 2014 at 1:00 AM CDT

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text:
Preview Of Project Milwaukee: To Protect And Serve Preview | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 23, 2018 at 12:56 PM CDT


text:
Program Targets Milwaukee Kids Not Screened for Developmental Issues | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published May 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM CDT

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text:
Project Milwaukee: How Can Metro Milwaukee Become More Integrated? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 17, 2017 at 6:17 PM CDT

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text:
Project Preserves Local Latina Voices | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 11, 2013 at 1:17 PM CDT


text:
Projects Aim to Improve Community Well-Being in Milwaukee Through Health Evaluations | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published October 24, 2017 at 1:48 PM CDT


text:
A Promising Project: Training Milwaukee Workers While Demolishing Boarded Up Properties | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 10, 2014 at 10:28 AM CDT


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Protests Continue on Both Sides of the Alledged Police Brutality Debate | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published January 7, 2015 at 6:00 AM CST


text:
Quantifying K-12 Education Across Milwaukee | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Audrey Nowakowski
Published December 11, 2014 at 12:56 PM CST


text:
Racial Inequality is Still Strong in American Cultural Reality | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published April 24, 2014 at 12:44 PM CDT


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Re-Entry Expo: An Innovative Way to Support Former Inmates | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published May 18, 2018 at 6:00 AM CDT

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text:
Real Talk: Is 'My Brother's Keeper' Initiative Overlooking the Real Issue? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published June 26, 2014 at 11:47 AM CDT

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text:
Reggie Jackson on Milwaukee Segregation & America's Black Holocaust Museum | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published August 8, 2017 at 10:56 AM CDT


text:
Report Analyzes the Financial Cost of Segregation | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published March 28, 2017 at 12:55 PM CDT


text:
Reporter Investigates Poverty by Going into the Neighborhoods, Speaks to the People | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Published June 5, 2014 at 3:33 PM CDT

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text:
Reports Show Extreme Health Disparities in Wisconsin | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published November 12, 2014 at 1:00 AM CST


text:
Researcher Explores How Segregation Affects Maternal Mortality Rates | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Audrey Nowakowski
Published April 10, 2017 at 3:42 PM CDT

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text:
Rev Up MKE: A Competition that Encourages Businesses to Think and Grow Locally | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published September 23, 2016 at 4:03 PM CDT


text:
The Rising Prominence of the United Community Center's Ricardo Diaz | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published November 12, 2014 at 3:35 PM CST


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Rowing Against the Tide of a Segregated City | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published September 15, 2017 at 5:31 PM CDT


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Sexual Assault Charges Filed Against Milwaukee Police Officer Involved in Sherman Park Shooting | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published October 20, 2016 at 6:57 PM CDT


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Sherman Park One Year Later:  Job Picture Brightens | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published August 14, 2017 at 12:05 AM CDT


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Shopkeepers, Gardeners and Farmers Work to Eliminate Milwaukee's Food Deserts | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 24, 2014 at 1:00 AM CDT

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text:
Some Milwaukeeans Believe New Civil Rights Movement is Underway as MLK Remembered | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published January 19, 2015 at 6:00 AM CST


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South Side Residents Say Prostitution is Growing, Causing the Quality of Life to Deteriorate | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM CDT


text:
St. Charles' RePurpose says 'YES!' to Milwaukee Youth | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published July 25, 2014 at 2:36 PM CDT

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text:
State Assembly Passes Bill That Would Restrict Access to Police Body Videos | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 9, 2017 at 5:58 PM CST


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State Says Cargill Provided Proper Notice to Close Milwaukee Plant | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published August 5, 2014 at 1:00 AM CDT

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text:
Stepping into Food Justice: One Milwaukee Intern's Experience | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Susan Bence
Published August 25, 2017 at 2:17 PM CDT


text:
Struggling To Get Out Of  Poverty: The 'Two Generation' Approach | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Eric Westervelt
Published April 26, 2014 at 4:19 PM CDT

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author: Eric Westervelt


text:
Summit Examines Milwaukee's Affordable Housing Crisis | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published November 15, 2017 at 3:11 PM CST


text:
Supporters Promote Bus Routes that Take Workers from Central Milwaukee to Suburban Jobs | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published October 25, 2016 at 7:04 PM CDT


text:
Tackling Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Survival | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Joy Powers
Published November 21, 2017 at 2:08 PM CST


text:
Talk in Milwaukee of Creating a 'Children's Zone' to Surround Kids with Support | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published December 11, 2014 at 12:39 PM CST


text:
Task Force Takes On Milwaukee’s Lead Challenge | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published September 16, 2016 at 5:35 PM CDT


text:
Thriving Cities Revisited: Milwaukee Wraps Up Phase One | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Susan Bence
Published June 17, 2014 at 10:00 AM CDT

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text:
Through New Grant, Mount Mary Strives to Graduate Diverse Counselors | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published August 31, 2016 at 4:14 PM CDT


text:
Trial Starts for Former MPD Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published June 12, 2017 at 6:00 AM CDT

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text:
Trump Administration Will Let States Require People To Work For Medicaid | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Alison Kodjak
Published January 11, 2018 at 7:34 AM CST

author: Alison Kodjak


text:
U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Wisconsin Voter ID Law | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published October 9, 2014 at 9:28 PM CDT


text:
UW-Madison Program Places Med Students in Milwaukee's Underserved Communities | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Audrey Nowakowski
Published January 9, 2018 at 4:55 PM CST


text:
UWM Instructor Hopes Students Can Help Solve Milwaukee Lead Water Pipes Challenge | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Susan Bence
Published January 18, 2017 at 6:14 PM CST

author: Susan Bence


text:
Veterans And PTSD: How Volunteering Can Bring Healing | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published July 12, 2018 at 12:14 PM CDT

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text:
Video: See How Milwaukee Schools Have Remained Segregated | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 9, 2017 at 5:00 AM CST

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Virginia Tech Researcher Assesses Milwaukee Lead Lateral Strategy | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published December 16, 2016 at 9:28 AM CST


text:
What Do Milwaukee Public Schools Need in a New Superintendent? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published April 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM CDT

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text:
What Does Montessori Education Look Like in Wisconsin? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published February 26, 2018 at 7:30 AM CST


text:
What Milwaukee Can Learn From Detroit (In a Good Way) | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published September 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM CDT


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‘White Silence is Violence’: White Milwaukeeans Speak Out Against Racism | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published August 21, 2017 at 11:34 AM CDT


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Why Are Graduation Rates So Low for UWM's Black Students? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published October 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM CDT


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Why Are So Many Black Men in Wisconsin Behind Bars? | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published November 13, 2013 at 4:19 PM CST


text:
Why Gender Matters When It Comes To Prison & Rehabilitation | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Bonnie North
Published October 24, 2014 at 1:18 PM CDT

author: Bonnie North


text:
Why the Predicted Revival of Milwaukee's Poorest Zip Code Hasn't Happened | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Michelle Maternowski
Published November 11, 2014 at 1:32 PM CST

author: Michelle Maternowski


text:
WI GOP Leaders Set to Take Up Education Reforms | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published January 6, 2015 at 1:00 AM CST


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WI Groups Prepare to Protect Undocumented Immigrants from Possible Deportation | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 17, 2016 at 1:00 AM CST


text:
Wisconsin Asks Trump Administration: Let State Become the First to Drug Test Medicaid Applicants | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published June 7, 2017 at 12:46 PM CDT

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text:
Wisconsin Followed Trend As U.S. Sent Higher Rate of Black Men to Prison | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Published November 23, 2013 at 12:22 AM CST


text:
Wisconsin Lawmakers Revisit Mandatory Minimums | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 14, 2017 at 10:35 AM CST


text:
Wisconsin Legislation Could Lead to More Crimeless Revocations | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published March 30, 2017 at 6:00 AM CDT

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Wisconsin Providers Encourage Clients to Sign Up for ACA in 2017 | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published January 4, 2017 at 12:05 AM CST


text:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidates Focus on Differences | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published February 19, 2018 at 10:42 AM CST


text:
Wisconsin Worst in Nation for Well-Being of Black Children | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
WUWM 89.7 FM
Published April 2, 2014 at 1:39 AM CDT

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Wisconsin's High Black Male Incarceration Rate Concerns Community Leaders | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
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Published November 11, 2013 at 1:00 AM CST


text:
Project Milwaukee: To Protect And Serve | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR
Camila Domonoske


text:
ArtMilwaukee.com is for sale | HugeDomains
Marius Bogdan Dinu, CryptoAdventure.com

author: Marius Bogdan Dinu, CryptoAdventure.com


text:
Walker OK on health exchange was inevitable - Milwaukee Business Journal
Rich Kirchen
Nov 8, 2012

author: Rich Kirchen


text:
Wisconsin transitional jobs program helped unemployed, felons get jobs: Study - Milwaukee Business Journal
Jeff Engel – Reporter, Milwaukee Business Journal
Oct 4, 2013


text:
From trouble to entrepreneur: How an 11-year-old became a VP - Milwaukee Business Journal
Denise Lockwood – Reporter, Milwaukee Business Journal
Dec 27, 2013


text:
WHEDA rolls out $111.4M homebuyer tax credit: CRE Guide - Milwaukee Business Journal
Sean Ryan – Senior Reporter, Milwaukee Business Journal
Jan 6, 2013


text: Bloomberg - Are you a robot?


text:
[GAME CHANGERS!] From Urban Underground to County Supervisor
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author: #TeamEBONY