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Yesterday, an \u201cAll Politics\u201d blog post <\/a>by reporter Steve Schultze in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> covered a brewing battle between Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr. and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers. On Wednesday, Sheriff Clarke talked to the media about his recent removal of 61 offenders from the county\u2019s electronic monitoring program, which was used to monitor certain qualifying offenders via electronic supervision as an alternative to the average $144\/day it costs to house these offenders in the county jail. Previously, judicial recommendations were often the guideline used to determine whether someone would be incarcerated or out on electronic monitoring. But the sheriff cited a recently discovered (though 5 year old) law that allows him full authority to determine supervision for every offender sentenced to his jail.<\/p>\n

Judge Kremers, who does not dispute the sheriff\u2019s authority, has publically taken exception to the policy change, which resulted in the immediate incarceration of 61 offenders who to that point were compliant and following the terms of their probation. The sheriff says he believes the 61 identified offenders were dangerous enough to warrant incarceration, and believes it is an important step in a tough-on-crime approach to managing the jail population in his county.<\/p>\n

The battle illustrates a common one in the justice system\u2014different departments, each\u00a0dealing with criminal offenders, but each with different–and often competing–incentives. More than 40 of those offenders were repeat drunk drivers sentenced to SCRAMx monitoring as part of their DUI convictions. Whether it\u2019s SCRAMx or GPS or house arrest\/RF, when comparing the daily cost of monitoring to the daily incarceration rate, electronic monitoring programs are generally credited with saving counties millions of dollars every year, even for just 40 offenders who would have otherwise been in jail.<\/p>\n

So who is right? Everyone and no one<\/a>, it would seem. Interestingly, in April of 2008, the Journal-Sentinel<\/em> ran an article entitled \u201c400 diverted into treatment, freeing court and jail space,\u201d <\/a>where officials in the very same county (as well as others in Wisconsin) touted a new diversion program aimed at changing the management of nonviolent offenders with addiction issues but keeping them in the community and directly addressing their addictions, instead of putting them in jail. And judges often turn to EM-based diversion programs because there simply aren\u2019t enough jail beds to house the offenders that come through their court, no matter how much they want that offender to spend time in jail.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a difficult balance, and Milwaukee seems to exemplify the debate. So which approach makes the most sense? What is the proper balance? Weigh in, we\u2019d like to hear what you have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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