Title

MI-CURE News (November 2000)

Description

MI-CURE News (November 2000) covering excessive prisoner phone charges; MDOC’s new media restrictions limiting public oversight; research on lead poisoning's potential role in criminality; contradictions in official claims about Michigan’s private youth prison; truth-in-sentencing laws driving rising incarceration rates; prison guards’ union’s opposition to drug sentencing reform; legal updates on parole discharge authority, jury selection, and public defender policies; and MDOC’s removal of prisoners with HIV from food service jobs.

Location

Michigan

Source

MI-CURE News (November 2000)

Theme

Community and Resistance

Type

Advocacy Organization Records

Level 1 Tag

Advocacy Groups

Prisons

Prison Conditions

Legislation

Juvenile Justice

Parole & Probation

Level 2 Tag

Prison Communications

Racial Disparity

Sentencing

Medical Conditions

Healthcare

Level 3 Tag

MI-CURE

MDOC

War on Drugs

Date

2000-11