Hundreds Gather in Milwaukee to Launch Campaign to Close Down the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF)

Date:  07-05-2017 Leaders of the #CloseMSDF Campaign Call on Governor Walker to Save Lives and Save Money by Closing MSDF

The following is a press release from Ex-Prisoners Oganizing: Milwaukee, WI – Hundreds of faith leaders, community advocates, and formerly incarcerated people gathered at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and then marched to the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) to launch a campaign led by EX-Prisoners Organizing (EXPO) to close the prison. People incarcerated at MSDF are locked in their cells for 22 hours a day without access to outdoor recreation, denied in-person visits, and suffer routine abuses including extreme heat and poor ventilation, causing severe medical problems and even death. Many people subjected to these deplorable conditions have not been charged with new crimes but are at MSDF due to crimeless revocation – the practice of re-incarcerating people on probation, parole, and extended supervision for minor rule violations – or probation, parole, or extended supervision holds. Continue reading the EXPO press release here Read more about EXPO in the article Rice, Brisco: The State's Secure Detention Facility in Milwaukee Needs to Be Closed, originally posted in USA Today, here.