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Apr 2, 2026

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People & Politics

Apr 2, 2026

Dream.org

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Day of Empathy 2026

Feb 18, 2026

Community

Phone Banking. Engage. Educate. Empower.

Feb 19, 2026

Community

Friends & Family Forum

Feb 2, 2026

Community

ENGAGE. EDUCATE. EMPOWER.

Jan 14, 2026

Kathy Briggs is assisted by case manager Kim Immel, left, and nursery program manager Kim Perkins as she puts on a front-loading baby carrier with her daughter Melody inside at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo. Prison nursery programs allow babies to live behind walls with their mothers — a rare and controversial approach. (Photo by Amanda Watford/Stateline)

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Teaching us how to grow with our babies’: How prisons allow mothers and infants to nest for months

Jan 12, 2026

Community

EXPO of Wisconsin to host retirement party for Jerome Dillard, a revered figure in the reentry community

Dec 10, 2025

EXPO executive director Jerome Dillard, right, and Dennis Franklin, interim associate director, at the group’s four-unit apartment building on Axel Avenue. Credit: Isthmus

Reentry

Madison nonprofit EXPO moves into housing to address recidivism

Dec 10, 2025

Annie Flanagan for NBC News

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails

Nov 21, 2025

A fence surrounds the Oshkosh Correctional Institution on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Angela Major/WPR

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Review details problems with solitary confinement, overcrowding in Wisconsin prisons

Nov 20, 2025

Credit: Richard Theis/EyeEm/Getty

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Advocates push Gov. Evers to issue first commutations in 25 years

Oct 30, 2025

Community

5th Annual Correcting the Narrative Celebration: Learning is Liberation

Nov 3, 2025

Wisconsin Department of Correction Secretary Jared Hoy was one of the keynote speakers at the EXPO gala.

Community

Wisconsin prisons chief, at EXPO gala, says he sees need for culture change

Oct 13, 2025

Community

Meet the Author & Book Signing

Oct 6, 2025

Community

Alabama Solution

Oct 23, 2025

Community

EXPOnential 2025

Aug 28, 2025

Credit: FOX6 News Digital Team Image of: Adam Procell

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Milwaukee Office of Community Wellness and Safety; new leader revealed

Aug 18, 2025

Gov. Tony Evers speaks at a press conference about his budget proposal for the Department of Corrections. Evers vetoed a bill that would have deprived Wisconsinites who finished serving their time for felonies of voting rights if they hadn't paid all their court fees and other obligations.. Photo by Baylor Spears/Wisconsin Examiner.

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Criminal Justice Briefs Evers vetoes bill that would have made unpaid court fees a barrier to voting

Aug 14, 2025

The Waupun prison sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood (Photo | Wisconsin Examiner)

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Public pushes DOC to apply law, reduce the number of people returned to Wisconsin prisons

Jul 15, 2025

Reentry

Upcoming Event Friends & Family Forum

Jul 15, 2025

Books are organized on shelves in Madison, Wis. on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, as volunteers with a nonprofit called Wisconsin Books to Prisoners prepare to mail out free copies to people incarcerated in Wisconsin. Angela Major/WPR

Community

Volunteers face delays as they work to resume sending used books to Wisconsin prisoners

Jul 9, 2025

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Treatment instead of prison? Bill would cut overcrowding, save money, help mentally ill.

Jul 3, 2025

Wisconsin State Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

GOP Lawmakers in Swing States Are Still Working To Suppress Voting

Jul 2, 2025

Reentry

Help Us Prepare Safe Homes for Women Returning Home—Amazon Prime Days Are the Perfect Time to Give!

Apr 8, 2022

Community

John Lewis Commemorative Cookout

Jul 17, 2025

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Policy, Rights & Advocacy

CALL TO ACTION: Raise Your Voice on Changes to DOC 328

Apr 8, 2022

Waupun Correctional Institution is shown on Aug. 29, 2024, in Waupun, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Why is Wisconsin’s prison system such a ‘mess,’ and what can be done to fix it?

Jun 23, 2025

Framestock - stock.adobe.com / 629952710 African American inmates in detention center or correctional facility. Depressed man in orange uniform sits on prison bed and looks at barred window. Prisoners serve imprisonment term in jail cell.

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Study: Incarceration costs U.S. families $350 billion a year

Jun 11, 2025

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

The National Council Statement on the Appointment of Joshua Smith as Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Jun 9, 2025

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

We Can't Afford It: Mass Incarceration and the Family Tax

Apr 8, 2022

“Even behind bars, many of us stayed politically aware,” writes Brian Beals, who spent 35 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of murder. “We discussed policy, elections and community needs. But we were locked out of participating — voiceless in a system that still impacted our lives and families.”stock.adobe.com

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Let Illinois' incarcerated vote

May 26, 2025

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Policies for waiving medical copays in prisons are not enough to undo the harm caused by charging incarcerated people for health care access

May 15, 2025

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

U.S. House reintroduces legislation to address the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Apr 14, 2025

Holger Weitzel/Getty

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Northern European Prisons Illustrate Focus on Dignity

Apr 16, 2025

Green Bay Correctional Institution | Photo by Andrew Kennard/Wisconsin Examiner

General

Third-party review underway for Wisconsin prisons

Apr 7, 2025

Aaron Hicks, Deb Mejchar, Dan Grupe and Virginia Medinilla at a community advisory meeting in March 2025. (Photo by Victoria Vlisides)

Reentry

Can Mindfulness and Community Break the Cycle? New CHM Study Seeks to Support Mental Health After Incarceration

Apr 4, 2025

Credit: Attorney Steve Hurley with documents of the type Wisconsin prisons are shredding. | Photo by Erik Gunn/Wisconsin Examiner

Reentry

Shredding of legal mail by Wisconsin prisons worries advocates

Mar 24, 2025

Credit:Flags, potted plants and barbed wire fencing can be seen outside Oakhill Correctional Institution on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Oregon, Wis. Angela Major/WPR

Reentry

Thousands more people could be sent back to prison each year under a bill advancing in Wisconsin

Mar 20, 2025

Reentry

Reentry housing project in Dane Co. supports formerly incarcerated women

Mar 20, 2025

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Bill would make a revocation recommendation mandatory for a new offense

Apr 8, 2022

General

Wisconsin Examiner: Certified peer specialists offer help to people in Wisconsin prisons

Feb 19, 2025

Community

EXPO Movie Night!

Jan 20, 2025

General

EXPO is hiring!

Dec 27, 2024

General

The Importance of Physical Mail for Incarcerated People in Wisconsin

Dec 9, 2024

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Clean Slate Laws Are Transforming Lives: Evidence from Survey Research in Pennsylvania, Utah, and Michigan

Nov 18, 2024

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

For the formerly incarcerated, voting for the first time is also about those who can’t

Nov 4, 2024

Community

EXPO Madison action Day

Oct 22, 2024

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Wisconsinites who lost voting rights after felonies share what voting means to them

Oct 9, 2024

Policy, Rights & Advocacy

Opinion: Transition from prison is difficult. Wisconsin is pioneering a new approach.

Oct 9, 2024

General

EXPOnential 2024 Awards

Sep 27, 2024

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