My father William Brockett has been incarcerated for 25 years for nonviolent property crimes. He was sentenced under the ''old law'' to 35 years. His mandatory release date has been 9-16-23, for years. August 2023, they added 8 years and 4 months onto his mandatory release date saying that he is under some presumptive mandatory release law, where they can keep him past his mandatory release date and gave him 8 more months citing ''risk to the public'' because he allegedly didn't have an approvable release plan, which is a lie. During those 8 months that he waited to go back to parole, he completed UW's English 100 course with an A, UW's poetry course with an A, Windows to Work which is a prerelease program that helps guys like him. He has been taking the small business entrepreneurship associates degree course through the University of Madison and is making straight A's and he has been working full time the entire time. He hasn’t had any conduct reports and has an incredible release plan and all kinds of people and organizations willing to help him. Also during that time, he went to PRC and their point system classified him as minimum community custody. He only had 4 points, which is as low as it can get and Madison approved him for medium because under the PMR statute it added those additional years onto his sentence and you can't go to a minimum with more than 5 years, so he can't even go there until January 2027, despite point wise being eligible right now. He has completed CGIP 1 & 2, SUD4, anger management, thinking for a change, Epictetus, parenting, windows to work, building maintenance, graphic arts/ printing, welding, UW's English 100, and UW's poetry course. He went to parole 3/16/24 and they said that basically none of that matters, that they aren't paroling him until he is physically in a lesser security prison, that it doesn't matter that his points make him eligible for minimum community custody, nor that he has been PRC'd to medium security. He explained that he was taking the small business entrepreneurship associates degree course through the University of Madison and that there was an education hold on him until he completed the program. Parole said that in their eyes, he will not be considered medium custody until he is physically in a medium prison. He clarified and asked, so in order for him to be paroled, he has to drop out of school so that the education hold can be dropped, so he can go to medium? They said, that's not what I am telling you to do, I'm just telling you that you won't be paroled from here, regardless of what you are classified as. There's only 2 ways to be kept under the PMR statue, failure to complete programming, or some umbrella term called ''risk to the public'' and now they're trying to say that he is a risk to the public because he is in a maximum security prison, despite the fact that he is points eligible for minimum community custody and has been approved by Madison for medium security. He’s only had 3 tickets in the last 10 years, none in over a year which makes him minimum community custody eligible, and he has completed every program that the system has to offer. So now they’re using risk to the public, which apparently means anything and it's just ridiculous. Then comes the other crazy part, which is the support that he has for a work commitment in the segregation unit. The warden himself signed off on it and since my dad was going to be under the education hold anyways, he figured that he might as well be working the entire time too because that's who he is. He doesn’t go to rec or day room or anything. All he does is work and go to school 7 days a week and when he’s in his cell, all he does is homework or sleep. He was willing to sign the work commitment because he could have been kept there under that, would have been considered medium security the entire time by PRC, and then if something like this happened, when he went back to see PRC next March, he could've been considered for minimum security. Everybody was on board with that and it's what he was prepared to do if parole did this. In the eyes of PRC, he would be looked at just like he had been in a medium security prison the whole time and he even asked and they said yes, that he would be considered for minimum security at his next recall date. Well now parole is saying the exact opposite, that they will not look at it like that, that he has to physically be in a medium security prison and then probably a minimum security prison, before they'll parole him. It’s a never ending cycle. PRC and parole never work together and nothing ever makes sense and now he’s stuck between doing what's best for his future, or dropping out of school and hoping that parole some day paroles him and accomplishing nothing while he waits because he’s done everything except for the college course that he’s currently taking. There is no appeal process and nobody needs to sign off on her decision? Unless we take them to court, unless the governor steps in, or unless one of these organizations helps us. We can't afford $30,000 for a lawyer.