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Word Change Central to Corrections Law Revision

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Both prison guards and inmate rights activists say they’re ready to support the latest proposal to fix Wisconsin’s John Doe law. As Gil Halsted reports the key to the change is replacing the word “shall” with the word “may.”…

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