Ex-Offender Discusses His Effort to End Mass Incarceration
and the Role Schizophrenia Played in His Numerous Arrests
and the Role Schizophrenia Played in His Numerous Arrests
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Mark Rice, a PhD candidate at UW-Milwaukee who is actively involved with efforts to end mass imprisonment in Wisconsin, chairs the Post-Release Issues Workgroup of WISDOM, an organization that links communities across Wisconsin in order to combat injustice. He works as a statewide organizer for EXPO (EX-Prisoners Organizing), a group of formerly incarcerated people who drive WISDOM’s ROC (Restoring Our Communities) Wisconsin Campaign to end mass incarceration.
Additionally, he serves as a board member of Project RETURN, an agency in Milwaukee that helps people leaving prison make a positive and permanent return to their community.
In 2016, he received the Distinguished Leadership Award from MICAH (Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope) and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Congresswoman Gwen Moore for his outstanding and committed work to end mass incarceration.
He has contributed his expertise on issues like ban the box, rights restoration, and crimeless revocations to numerous news outlets, including Wisconsin and Milwaukee Public Radio, the Daily Beast, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Courier, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and NBC 26.
The interview was conducted on February 26, 2017.
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