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Entire Edgar County State’s Attorney’s Office On Quarantine: All Criminal Cases Postponed

The Edgar County State's Attorney's Office is on quarantine due to a positive test of COVID-19.

Edgar County Board Chairman Jeff Voigt stated that "an office in the courthouse is on quarantine due to a positive COVID-19 test, and SERVPRO has been contacted and will be at the courthouse this morning to clean and sanitize the Courtrooms, restrooms, hallways, and the elevator."

Voigt would not state which office or which person, however, I was informed this morning that the case involving former Paris Councilman Kemper will not be heard this afternoon due to this new information, and all criminal cases have been postponed.

We urge any criminal defendants to contact the court about their case, and not rely on the information within this article, as this is unofficial information - although we believe it to be true and obtained it from multiple sources within the courthouse.

We will update this article should the Court issue a statement or press release.

https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/08/entire-edgar-county-states-attorneys-office-on-quarantine-all-criminal-cases-postponed/

OPINION: Wisconsin’s unjust system of mass supervision remains intact. And that’s the real crime.

Mark Rice is the founder of the #CLOSEmsdf campaign, which seeks to close the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility and redirect resources to build communities.

Wisconsin’s disastrous system of mass supervision is at odds with our widely shared values of justice, human dignity and compassion. Detaining people struggling with poverty, housing insecurity, mental health issues and addiction issues for alleged rule violations is at odds with common sense approaches to justice. Yet, public officials in Wisconsin have been keeping its prisons and jails overcrowded for many years by doubling down on this unjust practice.

A new report by Human Rights Watch and the ACLU demonstrates the deep racial injustice and extent of the harm caused by mass supervision in Wisconsin. Wisconsin now detains people for violations of supervision at the third highest rate in the nation.

Seventy percent of prison admissions in Wisconsin now stem from supervision violations. One out of every eight Black men in the state are under supervision, five times the rate for white men. One out of every 11 Indigenous men in the state are under supervision, four times the rate for white men. Black and Indigenous women also are impacted by the supervision system at highly disproportionate rates.

One of the devastating consequences of Wisconsin’s addiction to supervision and detaining people for convictionless rule violations was the creation of the notorious Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, or MSDF, where human rights violations have regularly occurred since its opening in 2001. At least 18 people have died in MSDF over the last 19 years. MSDF was the first prison in the United States built solely for the purpose of incarcerating people under supervision. Nine out of 10 people detained at MSDF have not been convicted of a new crime. Although only 6% of people in Wisconsin identify as Black, 65% of the people being detained at MSDF identify as Black.

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https://milwaukeenns.org/2020/08/24/opinion-wisconsins-unjust-system-of-mass-supervision-remains-intact-and-thats-the-real-crime/