How a Small Team in Wisconsin Delivers Investigative Reporting to 10 Gannett Papers

Late last month, Gannett’s papers in Wisconsin began to roll out a major project that examines widespread disparities in criminal sentencing among the state’s judges. Wedding reported analysis to interactive databases, the series highlighted worrying discrepancies in sentences, compiled a first-of-its-kind assessment of the state’s circuit court judges, and explained how judges face little accountability for poor performance.