Title

MI-CURE News (May 2014)

Description

MI-CURE News (May 2014) covering updates on the FCC ruling on prison phone rates; concerns over MDOC overcrowding, staffing issues, and rehabilitation program access; programming backlog statistics for VPP, SOP, and T4C; challenges in prison education and vocational training; developments in food service privatization with Aramark; national efforts to reform solitary confinement policies; a partnership between MSU and MDOC on prison healthcare models; Medicaid expansion for parolees; discussions on clemency reform at state and federal levels; and advocacy suggestions for legislative and MDOC policy changes.

Location

Michigan

Source

MI-CURE News (May 2014)

Theme

Community and Resistance

Type

Advocacy Organization Records

Level 1 Tag

Advocacy Groups

Prisons

Prison Conditions

Level 2 Tag

Prison Communications

Overcrowding

Prison Programming

Understaffing

Prison Education

Privatization

Solitary Confinement

Comparative Prison Models

Healthcare

Appeals

Clemency & Expungement

Level 3 Tag

MI-CURE

MDOC

Date

2014-05