Funding non-police mental health responses in Dane County is more important than ever
DCSO is killing more people and asking for more money—but where’s the investment in alternate mental-health models?
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Dan Fitch
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Goodbye, Halloween House
An inexplicable Tenney-Lapham landmark has gone quietly into that spooky night.
Guest column: Under Mnookin, UW-Madison is repeating its COVID-19 mistakes
Campus workers and community members address the new Chancellor’s lax safety plan for fall, and her responses to COVID concerns.
Digging into the latest opposition to a smaller Dane County Jail
Dane County skirts meaningful reform and looks to bypass resistance to building a new jail.
Dane County’s jail project barrels down a familiar road, but there are always more off-ramps
The County Board counts costs, Sheriff Barrett moves incarcerated people, and the Black Caucus recommends an alternative—as budget season heats up.
The Dane County Board pairs more jail funding with toothless calls for reform
Another absurd, expensive, and politically craven turn in the drawn-out quest to build new cages.
New co-responder programs for mental health crises offer different approaches—including whether they send police to the scene
Who can you expect to show up when you call for help in Madison?
Misframing decisions about the County jail does the public a disservice
Dismantling is difficult. Making the same mistakes is easy.
Public health, public safety, and the people caught in the coils
What’s in Dane County’s 2022 budget for care and incarceration.
When it comes to cash bail, Dane County has too many blind spots
A deeper look at who gets stuck in jail pre-trial and how we got here.
