Nationwide, adults over 65 have some of the highest suicide rates by age group, though they are among the least likely to seek or receive mental health support. They made up 20% of all suicide deaths in Wisconsin between 2018 and 2023.
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Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world. A reader wrote to us, referring to the state's prison situation as a “mess” and asking how we got here and what can be done to fix it. Here's our response: wisconsinwatch.org/2025/06/why-is…
wisconsinwatch.org Why is Wisconsin’s prison system such a ‘mess,’ and what can be done to fix it? Deteriorating prisons, truth-in-sentencing, Act 10: Reasons for problems abound, while solutions remain elusive. Wisconsin’s recent Supreme Court election, with $100 million in record spending and wall-to-wall attack ads, spotlighted how politicized the state’s “nonpartisan” high court has become. How did we get here? A former justice's rise and fall has some clues. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/04/wiscon…
wisconsinwatch.org Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has become hyper political. The rise and fall of Michael Gableman’s... The former Supreme Court justice has agreed to surrender his law license after years of avoiding consequences for his behavior, including a previously unreported incident at the 2016 Republican Nat… From abortion to redestricting, @byjackkelly looks at what Susan Crawford's victory in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race could mean for some key issues. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/04/heres-…
wisconsinwatch.org Here’s what Susan Crawford’s state Supreme Court win means for Wisconsin Liberals will control the court until at least 2028 — with implications for abortion rights, congressional redistricting, labor rights and the environment. Earlier this month, Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel repeated a long-debunked claim about the Milwaukee ballot count in 2018 and 2024 when urging his supporters to vote early. Sources: wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/wiscon…
wisconsinwatch.org Did Milwaukee election officials at the end of ballot counting ‘find bags of ballots that they... No. Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel suggested the late counting was malfeasance, a long-debunked claim.