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Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC)

Increased prisoner telephone rates: a summary of the issues

CAPPS Analysis | June 2011   CAPPS and MICURE examined a telephone contract that nearly doubled prisoner telephone rates. Prisoner contact with family and friends is essential to successful reintegration and thus, a smaller prison population.  However, a contract with a new telephone vendor nearly doubled the phone rates.  CAPPS and MI-CURE analyzed the bidding [...]

1997 MDOC report “Five Years After” shows impact of 1992 draconian parole policy changes

The report, Five Years After: An Analysis of the Michigan Parole Board since 1992, was published in 1997 by the  Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) to document how the 1992 overhaul of the Parole Board and its parole review process increased the time prisoners were kept behind bars during that five-year period. Ken McGinnis, then the MDOC [...]