Most of the 22 thousand inmates in Wisconsin’s prisons are there for drug or alcohol related crimes. And according to prison reform advocates many of them don’t need to be there. Gil Halsted reports on efforts by judges, prison officials and community organizations to work together to reduce the prison population by keeping more offenders in the community…
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