Donald Henriksen is one of at least 45 registered sex offenders living among other nursing home residents, according to a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism review of addresses for the state’s nearly 20,000 registered sex offenders and 399 licensed nursing homes.

Serials librarian Ron Larson introduces us to an archive of newspapers, most of which are out of print.

Click on the link above to access Wisconsin data sets we’ve compiled.

New data released last week from a research center at Syracuse University says immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum, including individuals detained in Wisconsin, are waiting more than a year to have their day in court.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reports that nationwide, the number of cases awaiting trial reached 242,776 at the end of March, [...]

National health rankings report that large numbers of people in Wisconsin are exposed to contaminated drinking water.

At University of Wisconsin campuses, most victims do not report crimes. The statistics are inconsistent. And most rapists go free.

Experts say Wisconsin’s high suicide rate, relative to those of neighboring states, could be linked to a high rate of binge drinking, easy access to firearms and lack of available mental health care, especially in rural areas.

Douglas Meyers, who died on a rural road in October, was one of 18 traffic fatalities in Marinette County in 2009 as the county traffic death toll tied an all-time record.