Ambition With Heart EXPO/FREE was very successful in 2021 in recruiting, training, and supporting members in providing testimony at budget hearings. In total, over 50 members showed up to testify. Again, this resulted in a $3 million increase to Treatment and Diversion Programs and helped shut down (or amend) some terrible proposals, including one that targeted our children for perminent removal from homes based on the parent’s incarceration alone, frightening. EXPO/FREE held six “Locked Up On the Outside” (Prisons Without Walls) public events, each attended by 25-75 people and attended by Community Corrections Regional Community Chiefs of the regions these events held, also State Legislature and County officials. EXPO held our first-ever gala (EXPOnential) in October to celebrate its successes and the successes of EXPO members. More than 200 people attended; nearly half were formerly incarcerated EXPO/FREE WISCONSIN ACHIEVEMENTS
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