State Ex Rel. Singh v. Kemper

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ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J.

We are presented with both a petition and a cross-petition for review involving the constitutionality of legislation that repealed and modified a law, 2009 Wis. Act 28, that allowed inmates the opportunity to earn "positive adjustment time," by which inmates could obtain early release from prison.1

*132¶ 2. The constitutionality of two provisions of 2011 Wis. Act 38 relating to 2009 Wis. Act 28, which adopted positive adjustment time, are at issue in this case: (1) the retroactive repeal of positive adjustment time, and (2) the preservation of positive adjustment time…