TELL SUPERVISOR SCOTT MCDONELL AND BRETT HULSEY TO STOP MAKING
COUNTY BOARD DECISIONS AT CAUCUS AND ASK THEM:
WHY WON'T THEY ALLOW
THE ENTIRE COUNTY BOARD TO VOTE ON THE POVERTY EXEMPTION ORDINANCE?
If passed the Poverty Exemption
Ordinance would exempt all incarcerated people earning below 150% of the
federal poverty line or recipients of state or federal aid from having to
pay for access to the Clerk of Courts Alternatives to Incarceration Program
(ATIP) or Electronic Monitoring Program (EMP).
The County Board has increased
these programs by 4-fold in the last year, however they have also
instituted a highly regressive fee of over 600$/month.
Dane County has one of the
worst black-white disparate incarceration rates in the country and
these fee policies that refuse low-income people and people of color
the cost-saving alternatives to incarceration programs that reduce
recidivism, will further institutionalize the two-tiered system of
criminal justice.
These programs save the county
56$/day if an inmate is on EMP or ATIP rather than in the jail.
The Poverty Exemption Ordinance
was introduced more than 3 months ago, and passed the Public
Protection and Judiciary Committee unanimously more than two months
ago.
SO, WHAT'S
THE PROBLEM?
Supervisor Scott McDonell and
Brett Hulsey decided behind closed doors in caucus to "send it back"
to Public Protection and Judiciary Committee even though it already
passed there!
This is a way to effectively
"kill the ordinance in committee" and not allow a floor vote from
the entire board on this common-sense law.
TAKE TWO
MINUTES TO CALL THEM:
Scott McDonell
(608) 259-9506
Brett Hulsey (608) 238-6070
LEAVE A MESSAGE AND
ASK THEM TO
STOP STALLING
AND SEND THE ORDINANCE TO THE FLOOR OF THE COUNTY BOARD AT THIS
TUESDAY'S PERSONAL AND FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING:
COME TESTIFY:
5:30 TUESDAY MAY 27th –
RM 325 CITY-COUNTY BUILDING
