Word: milwaukeee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
U.S. prisons release an average of 630,000 inmates each year, and that number will rise for the foreseeable future as more and more sentences run out from arrests made during the Reagan Administration's war on drugs in the 1980s and the zero-tolerance crackdown in the '90s. Calculate...
A commission set up to study the city's worst homicides found that 50% of both homicide perpetrators and victims in 2005 had been previously arrested. One in five was on probation or parole at the time of the slaying. "It's shocking to see the criminal histories of the...
Resources outside are even more limited. Milwaukee has 160 halfway beds for recently released inmates, but those beds are so in demand that a parolee can stay a maximum of just 90 days. "Ideally we'd have five to 10 times the number of beds we do, and we could...
Since 1998, Wisconsin has lost nearly 90,000 manufacturing jobs. Milwaukee has suffered the brunt of that, hemorrhaging 7,500 positions in 2005 alone. The unemployment rate hovers around 7%, up from 2.6% in 1998 and nearly double the national average. In inner-city neighborhoods, the level rises to nearly...
Barrett's administration has tried to address unemployment through a huge investment in real estate development and tax incentives to attract business. The mayor says those efforts have created more than 10,000 local jobs. Most of them, however, are either high-tech positions beyond the skills of many Milwaukee...