Criminal Justice Fellows, 2004-2005

Phil Brinkman
State Government Reporter
Wisconsin State Journal

Phil Brinkman has covered state government for the Wisconsin State Journal since December 2000. Since joining the paper in 1993, he has also covered courts and schools and worked as a general assignment and special projects reporter. He previously worked as a reporter for The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Ill. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Brinkman earned a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1984 and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1989.

Fellowship Project:

• Filling prisons is not a cure-all
• Crime has been prevented, but how much?
• Doyle: We needed the prisons at the time
• More criminals are out than in
• Freedom and the sting of reality
• The Lows After the Highs
• Said and said again
• Freed inmates need firm guiding hand
• Unheralded efforts on local level worth a look
• Something new: Pols want to know what works
• Story Behind the Story

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