Race & Sentencing in Wisconsin:

Sentence and Offender Characteristics Across Five Criminal Offense Areas, a report [148 pp. pdf] by Brenda R. Mayrack, Policy Analyst, for the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission, is summarized by our State Bar's President Tom Basting. He also distinguishes this study from the work of the Governor’s Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System.

The latter, in a July 3, 2007 press release [2 pp. pdf], explained that

In March, Governor Doyle appointed the commission, led by Co-Chairs State Senator Spencer Coggs and Madison Police Chief Noble Wray, to determine whether discrimination is built into the criminal justice system at each stage of the criminal justice continuum and recommend strategies and solutions to reduce the racial disparity in the Wisconsin criminal justice system.

(via The Wheeler Report)