WISDOM Solitary Confinement Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# Please join our work to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement. More than 15 days in solitary confinement is torture. It magnifies mental health issues and destroys people. Other states and nations have learned to get by without it, we can too.  

WISDOM Prison Prevention Task Force Conference Call

Call:  605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# The prison population in Wisconsin has more than tripled since 1990. Wisconsin has the highest black male incarceration rate in the country. Half of African American men in their 30s in Milwaukee County have been in state prison. Incarceration is expensive and comes with additional social costs. We can keep people […]

Religious Leaders Caucus

St. Mark's Lutheran Church 605 Spruce St,, Madison, WI, United States

Join religious leaders from congregations throughout Dane County as we mobilize and turn our words into action. This month’s focus: We are stepping up our efforts to encourage faith groups to call Wisconsin legislators to vote for SB393 or for a more inclusive bill. Two of our member congregations had an opportunity to invite members […]

WISDOM Old Law Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# Join this call to discuss advocacy efforts for incarcerated people trapped within the changes of the “old” sentencing and parole laws.

MOSES Executive Committee

St. Lukes Episcopal Church 4011 Major Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

The Executive Committee is the governing body of MOSES, consisting of the officers of MOSES, the Vice President(s), the immediate past President, and the Chair of the Religious Leaders Caucus, and includes the MOSES organizer serving ex officio. Other MOSES members may attend as non-voting observers, as space permits, except during closed discussion of personnel matters. […]

Forum on Revocations

Grace Episcopal Church 116 W Washington Ave, Madison, WI, United States

More than 4,500 people are currently incarcerated in Wisconsin prisons for a revocation without a new conviction. Each year, thousands of others are held temporarily in county jails or the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) while their agents investigate alleged rule violations. Wisconsin could literally close MSDF and other prisons by transforming its unjust revocation process. […]

Dane County Board Meeting

City-County Building, Room 201 210 Martin Luther King Blvd, Madison, WI, United States

This meeting will include consideration of a resolution to ask the state to increase TAD funding.  MOSES members, in collaboration with WISDOM, proposed this resolution and will testify in support of its passage.

Dane County Health & Human Needs Committee

City-County Building, Room 351 210 Martin Luther King Blvd, Madison, WI, United States

County officials discuss a wide range of health and human needs issues, which may include issues of mental health services as they pertain to alternatives to incarceration. Meeting agendas are regularly monitored for pertinent issues and attended by members of MOSES Crisis Restoration Center Focus Group, which is part of the MOSES Justice Reform Initiative. […]

Dane County Criminal Justice Council

City-County Building, Room 351 210 Martin Luther King Blvd, Madison, WI, United States

County officials discuss matters of concern to improve the handling of individuals charged with a crime from initial contact through final release and followup. This meeting is regularly attended by members of MOSES Diversions Focus Group, which is part of the MOSES Justice Reform Initiative.  

MOSES Leadership Board

First Unitarian Society 900 University Bay Dr, Madison, WI, United States

The Leadership Board is the strategic decision-making body of MOSES, consisting of the Executive Committee and voting delegates of member congregations and of the Independent Caucus. Other members may attend as non-voting observers, as space permits.

WISDOM Post-release Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423951# Join this statewide call which discusses our work to: End crimeless revocations. The largest number of people entering Wisconsin prisons are actually re-entering prison. About 4,000 prison admissions each year are people who have not been convicted of a new crime. Open the doors of opportunity through Ban the Box legislation, […]

MOSES Meeting going ahead – Church is on South Park Street

Damascus Road Church 1702 South Park St, Madison, United States

The streets will be better by 3:30 today so we are going ahead with the meeting.  Hope to see you there. The meeting is NOT in Middleton it is on South Park Street just South of the Labor Temple. MOSES is a non-partisan interfaith organization that works to promote social justice with a focus on […]

MOSES Justice System Reform Task Force

South Madison Police Station 825 Hughes Place, Madison, WI, United States

This is MOSES' monthly Justice System Reform Initiative meeting where we discuss Advocating for a comprehensive justice system data bank Improving jail conditions for all parties at the jail Diversion methods to keep people out of the criminal justice system Establishing a restoration center for Dane County Education and experiential learning for MOSES members

WISDOM Old Law Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# Join this call to discuss advocacy efforts for incarcerated people trapped within the changes of the “old” sentencing and parole laws.

WISDOM Solitary Confinement Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# Please join our work to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement. More than 15 days in solitary confinement is torture. It magnifies mental health issues and destroys people. Other states and nations have learned to get by without it, we can too.  

WISDOM Prison Prevention Task Force Conference Call

Call:  605-468-8012 Passcode 423950# The prison population in Wisconsin has more than tripled since 1990. Wisconsin has the highest black male incarceration rate in the country. Half of African American men in their 30s in Milwaukee County have been in state prison. Incarceration is expensive and comes with additional social costs. We can keep people […]

Religious Leaders Caucus

St. Lukes Episcopal Church 4011 Major Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

Join religious leaders from congregations throughout Dane County as we mobilize and turn our words into action. From now on the meeting will be at St Lukes's Episcopal in the Jericho room.  Come in door off the parking lot and use the stairs to get to the Jericho room on the lower level. This month’s […]

MOSES Executive Committee

St Luke's Episocopal Church 4011 Major Avenue, Madison

The Executive Committee is the governing body of MOSES, consisting of the officers of MOSES, the Vice President(s), the immediate past President, and the Chair of the Religious Leaders Caucus, and includes the MOSES organizer serving ex officio. Other MOSES members may attend as non-voting observers, as space permits, except during closed discussion of personnel matters.

WISDOM Post-release Task Force Conference Call

Call: 605-468-8012 Passcode 423951# Join this statewide call which discusses our work to: End crimeless revocations. The largest number of people entering Wisconsin prisons are actually re-entering prison. About 4,000 prison admissions each year are people who have not been convicted of a new crime. Open the doors of opportunity through Ban the Box legislation, […]