Click title below to read or download the latest news from CAPPS: Read>> September 2014 CAPPS Update Please be patient - the document may take a few minutes to download. If you would like a hard copy mailed to you, please contact Dena at capps@capps-mi.org. P 2 | A CALL TO ACTION! P 5 | MEDIA OUTREACH P [...]
On April 29, 2013, Vanita Gupta, deputy legal director of the ACLU's Center for Justice, circulated this overview of legislative initiatives and news from across the U.S.: Highlights from the national campaign to end over-incarceration State Legislative Highlights: A number of states have either passed laws or are advancing bills that could reduce state correctional populations. Below are [...]
The recent Free Press series (9/30-10/2/2012) and its sensational headlines suggest that large numbers of released prisoners are roaming the streets assaulting and murdering citizens at will. Although this image is simply untrue, the MDOC has already slowed the grant of paroles and is returning more technical parole violators to prison. The series began with [...]
Issue background | CAPPS This article was originally published in the Fall 2007 issue of Consensus but the issue has not yet been resolved. Michigan Administrative Rule 791.7730 says that orders of parole shall contain conditions that are reasonably necessary to assist a parolee to lead a law abiding life. Further, the rule requires there [...]
What’s Inside this issue: Corrections trends are cause for concern - Right track or wrong track? Page 1. ●Length of stay drives prison costs, Page 5. ● Free Press series misleading, harmful to sound policy, Page 8. ● State enacts 25-year mandatory minimum for 4th offenders, Page 16. ● Laura Sager joins CAPPS staff, See page [...]
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CAPPS Consensus newsletter This issue of the Consensus newsletter explains SB 1109, the reasons CAPPS opposed it and habitual offender sentencing, beginning on Page 16. This fall, our legislators pushed through a hot-button crime bill that delivered good sound bites at the expense of sound public policy. Senate Bill 1109 amended MCL 769.13 to require [...]
Pew report shows Michigan far above national average CAPPS Consensus Fall 2012 A June 2012 analysis by the Pew Center on the States showed that Michigan leads the country in the average amount of time its prisoners serve. The report, Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms (June 2012), examined the [...]
Fall 2012 | CAPPS Consensus newsletter The latest CAPPS Consensus newsletter includes revealing information about Michigan sentencing practices over the last four decades, beginning on Page 6 of an article on the Pew Center on the States report that reveals Michigan’s extraordinarily long - and extraordinarily expensive - average prison length of stay: “The Pew report [...]
CAPPS Consensus, Spring 2012 The FY 2013 budgets proposed for the MDOC by the Executive, the Senate and the House, although different in significant ways, are all efforts to address the question: Why, with fewer facilities and nearly 8,000 fewer prisoners, do we still have a budget of $2 billion? It is not that reducing [...]