- Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC held its monthly Saturday forum on
Black Male Incarceration on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the Center Street Library.
The speakers focused on discrimination, disenfranchisement, break-up
of families and misgivings of truth in sentencing. It was noted at the forum,
Wisconsin has the highest black male incarceration population in the United
States. Mary Glass, a community activist and businesswoman, assembled
four community leaders to share information about the incarceration problem,
which has plagued Milwaukee’s central city. Presenters included: La’Frisko
Lewis, UW-Milwaukee student; Solana Patterson-Ramos, political and community
advocate; C. Terrance Anderson, Planner, Southeastern WI Regional
Planning Commission and Brad Tenin, Admission Officer at Bryant Stratton College.