<html><div><br><br>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br>From: WISDOM <wisdomforjustice@gmail.com><br>To: gymbeau@netzero.com<br>Subject: Ask your representatives to prioritize TAD<br>Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 21:36:18 -0400 (EDT)<br><br></p><p> </p><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><center><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="10"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: right; font-size: 32px; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;" align="right" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#ffe690" height="100"><img src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7172/images/WISDOM%20Email%20Banner.jpg" alt="WISDOM - Linking Communities across Wisconsin to Work for Justice" width="600" height="97"></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width: 644px; height: 240px;" border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" align="left" valign="top" width="400"><h2 style="color: #00008b; font-size: 24px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">The WISDOM “Prison Prevention Workgroup” <br> has requested that we all call our state legislators on Monday, May 20.</span></h2><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Please contact your State Senator and State Assembly representative and ask them to prioritize a $15 million per year increase in TAD as they work on the new budget. To find your Representative and Senator and their contact information, click </span></strong><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n8%2F2onZFdBSoWOtKYeBe6yY9Ao7ELACC" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://legis.wisconsin.gov/&source=gmail&ust=1558382471898000&usg=AFQjCNFWd2oya35FMn2JoMFIA1P5c07g_g"><strong><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">HERE</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> and type in your address under “Who Are My Legislators?”</span></strong></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Ask your representatives to work to ensure that the new state budget includes a $15 million annual increase for Treatment Alternatives and Diversions (TAD). TAD allows counties to create or expand programs that are alternatives to jail or prison for people who the judge and prosecutor agree would be most appropriately sent to a treatment program to deal with their mental health and/or addiction issues. TAD programs have been studied and proven extremely effective, saving taxpayers more than $2 for every $1 they spend – AND they are more effective in deterring future crime.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Remind your representatives that Wisconsin’s prisons are dangerously overcrowded and understaffed. To avoid a major crisis, we need to be smarter. We need to be sure that people who are ill and/or elderly can be released; we need Parole for the long-term people who have done the time the judge expected them to serve; we need to stop sending people back to prison for Crimeless Revocations, AND we need to increase TAD so that judges have a better option for people who need a mental health or addiction treatment.</span></p><p> </p><p style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">It is important to contact your representative, no matter which political party they belong to. As negotiations continue, we need the Legislature and Governor to see this as an urgent priority.</span></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="color: #00008b;"><td style="text-align: center; font-size: x-small; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; padding: 0.5em 10px;" bgcolor="#ffe690">You are subscribed to WISDOM Updates as .<br> <a style="color: #333333;" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kGQGJD9dL7BAijz6bLzfXCY9Ao7ELACC">Click here to unsubscribe</a></td></tr></tbody></table></center><p style="text-align: center;"><!-- TemplateEndEditable --></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.salsalabs.com/?email"><img src="https://hq.salsalabs.com/salsa/images/SALSA_empowered_180x50_2.png" alt="empowered by Salsa" border="0"></a></div><p><img src="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/TrackImage?key=3965844194" alt="" width="1" height="1"><diaEmailID='3965844194' thread=5246 /></p></html>
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