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Part 2 of 2: Bridge Magazine: Michigan gets serious about high cost of prisons
First two of four Bridge Magazine articles on Michigan's corrections spendingBy Ted Roelofs | Bridge Magazine | bridgemi.com | April 15, 2014 Conservatives seek to lead on prison reform At first blush, the Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public [...]
Part 1 of 2 Bridge Magazine: Michigan gets serious about high cost of prisons
First two of four Bridge Magazine articles on Michigan's corrections spending/CAPPS quotedBy Ted Roelofs | Bridge Magazine | bridgemi.com | April 15, 2014 Michigan gets serious about high cost of prisons “We’ve locked up people for a long [...]
WKAR on Michigan’s prisons
Michigan has around 43-thousand prisoners in its state system. They reside in 31 state prisons and affiliated health care facilities. Credit Flickr - Todd Ehlers A host of challenges associated with Michigan’s prison [...]
Quotable: Michigan should be embarrassed that it spends more on prisons than public universities
Quotable: Former Ann Arbor publisher and University of Michigan regent Phil Power recently described higher education funding in Michigan in his typically direct way, noting that higher education in Michigan has withstood seven straight cuts [...]
The Toledo Blade weighs in: Michigan needs to reform the parole review process for lifers
Locked Out Editorial published by the Toledo Blade February, 24, 2014 For more than three decades, Michigan, Ohio, and most other states have engaged in a costly and futile race to incarcerate. It has quadrupled [...]
Report Says Parole Systems Costs Taxpayers Millions
Another news story on the CAPPS reports released Feb 12, 2014 (see reports this website). Note that a survey by the Prisons and Corrections Section of the State Bar of Michigan documented judges' intentions in [...]
Citizens group urges parole reforms to save Michigan $17M annually
Another good article on the reports CAPPS released Feb. 12, 2014 (see In the News) Citizens group urges parole reforms to save Michigan $17M annually By Gary Heinlein | Detroit News | Feb. 12, 2014 Lansing— [...]
CAPPS releases two reports calling for parole process reforms for parolable lifers; backed by statement signed by corrections officials
Click on headline below to read: Read>> Parolable Lifers in Michigan: Paying the price of unchecked discretion Read>> Michigan's Parolable Lifers: The cost of a broken process CAPPS Press release February 12, 2014 Michigan Department of [...]
State’s workforce down 20 percent in a decade but corrections spending climbs
Barbara Levine, CAPPS associate director for research and policy was interviewed on November 22, 2013 by Matthew Hall of Capital News Service. She noted that although the number of correction employees has declined over the past decade, [...]
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