Gov. Tony Evers issued a significantly consequential executive order on April 3, but it flew almost entirely beneath the public’s radar. He created a new “commutation” board to release prison inmates early for the first time in 25 years, even murderers and people serving life prison terms.

And almost no one noticed.

With the stroke of a pen, Evers, for all practical purposes, ended truth-in-sentencing in Wisconsin as we know it, by creating an end run around that law, at least for people who aren’t sex offenders or child abusers. He just short-circuited it for almost everyone else.

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