Kudos to Wisconsin newspapers pushing tougher drunken driving laws
October 22nd, 2008 at 09:23am Georgette Braun
This Chicago Sun Times story says that this week “the state’s largest newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is running a five-part series that examines the state’s drinking culture and drunken driving. That series follows an analysis and series of stories done by the newspaper group Gannett Wisconsin Media this summer that looked at alcohol’s impact in Wisconsin.”
“Momentum is building in the Wisconsin Legislature to increase penalties for drunken driving in the wake of two extensive newspaper series on problems associated with drinking in the state.”
The Journal Sentinel reported that “almost two-thirds of people sentenced under a state law that makes a fifth-offense drunken driving a felony spend less than a year in custody. State records show that last year alone one-third of those convicted of drunken driving in Wisconsin were repeat offenders.”
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