Juveniles | January 30, 2013 First posted on January 30, 2013 by SecondChances Visit the Second Chances website for full coverage of Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP). “We had a great victory today in the civil rights case of Hill v. Snyder. U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara issued an order that every person [...]
This 2011 presentation by Barbara Levine is as relevant today as it was in 2011: Barbara Levine, Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending Presentation to: Finding the Path to a $1.5 Billion Corrections Budget A Symposium for Policymakers and Stakeholders, March 17, 2011 When the prison population has been reduced by 7,500 and the [...]
Read>> CAPPS Consensus Spring 2012 ● FY 2013 budget proposals. See page 16. ● Guest Columns in Center for Michigan’s Bridge magazine Barbara Levine, on impact of cuts on prisoners, families. See page 4; Richard Stapleton, on presumptive parole. See page 5; Paul Reingold, on parolable lifers. Seep page 6. ● Bill to reform judicial veto [...]
Read>> CAPPS Consensus Winter 2010 ● MDOC budget, prisoner population edge down but still lock up state resources. See page 4. ● Bills to restore sentence credit spark debate. See page 9. ● CAPPS 10-Point Plan gains traction. See page 12. ● More hearings for lifers, commutations still can’t meet need. See page 16.
Juveniles | 2012 by Deborah LaBelle, Director, Juvenile Life Without Parole Initiative, Anna Phillips, Research Coordinator and Laural Horton, Research Assistant An excerpt from the report: “Despite a global consensus that children cannot be held to the same standards of responsibility as adults, in the last twenty years the trend in the United States has been [...]
Litigation | 2005 - 2010 This class action suit on behalf of parole-eligible lifers claimed the "life means life" policy violates the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution: Kenneth Foster-Bey, et al. v John S. Rubitschun, et al. (federal district court finding that change in parole board standard of review for parolable lifers violates [...]
CAPPS research | September 2006 The findings in this analysis are still relevant to today’s discussion of parolable lifers. From the report: “The historical record makes it indisputably clear that a life sentence in Michigan did not always mean “no release.” On the contrary, a parolable lifer’s chances of being released from prison have dropped dramatically [...]
Booth Newspapers, Inc. | 2006 By Judy Putnam LANSING -- In 1977, a Saginaw judge sent 21-year-old Reynaldo Rodriguez to prison for life for the shooting death of a teen who had allegedly threatened to kill Rodriguez’s younger brother, slapped his sister and shot bullets into his mother’s house. Despite the life sentence for second-degree [...]
Juveniles | 2006 Position statement of the Prisons and Corrections Section of the State Bar of Michigan Read>> Juvenile life without parole sentences
The Michigan parole board's treatment of these offenders, recommendations for change and profiles of some lifers. Read>> No way out: Michigan's parole board redefines the meaning of 'life'