Fudging with the Facts

An article in the Chippewa Herald by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism suggests, that inmates in solitary confinement have been reassessed to make their mental health statuses less relational to the harm of solitary confinement on those with mental illnesses. This apparently comes after Governor Walker proposed changes to how inmates with mental illnesses are treated physically, psychologically, pharmacologically, etc. In this regard, a memo was released asking professionals in the DOC realm to reassess inmates pertaining to mental health statuses and levels of functioning related to their level of confinement.
In an era where mental health is gaining support for services in the consciousness of the general population. Having a Governor and a State department to feel the need to reassess inmates to fudge with the statistics behind funding and operational success of incarceration institutions is mind boggling. The governor is in the midst of attempting to make himself look good in the face of another re-election campaign. A failed presidential campaign where he boasted the budgetary restrictions he has already forced on limited resources in Wisconsin should provide some indication of his potential to successfully continue to govern our great state. 

Any recent attempt to overhaul the incarceration rate of Wisconsinites has failed due to policy makers and state legislative bodies. Having never visited a prison in his time as Governor, how effective does he expect to be in creating real changes in a department he doesn’t seem to care enough about, nevermind how many potential voters are being lost in the ever increasing maze of minor infractions, mandatory minimum sentences, and social consciousness wars where taxpayer monies are wastes in awareness campaigns.

​Read the referenced article at this link: http://m.chippewa.com/wisconsin-prison-officials-quietly-changed-mental-health-status-of-inmates/article_39c22536-62de-5357-94eb-f3e65ae79423.html