Jails

Available now! Tickets to our 2019 Annual Dinner Meeting

We want you to be among the first to be able to order tickets for our 2019 Annual Dinner Meeting, taking place Thursday, Oct. 10 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel in Lansing. Tickets are just $25 a piece, or entire tables for $250. This year, we continue our tradition of bringing you an [...]

Barbara Wieland2019-08-21T12:28:24-04:00August 21st, 2019|Categories: Blog, Jails, Parole, Reentry|

Joint Task Force on Jails and Pretrial Incarceration Holds First Meeting in Detroit

In Michigan, the number of people and amount of time spent in our jails has been increasing despite historically significant declines in overall crime rates. In 2017, Michigan taxpayers spent $478 million on county jail and corrections costs. To address this issue, in 2018, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, joined by a bipartisan group of state and [...]

Kate McCracken2019-08-01T16:30:44-04:00August 1st, 2019|Categories: Blog, Jails|