Title

MI-CURE News (February 2015)

Description

MI-CURE News (February 2015) covering proposals for reducing prison admissions, sentence lengths, and recidivism; critiques of Michigan’s sentencing guidelines, parole system, and lack of access to education and rehabilitation programs; support for presumptive parole, reinstatement of good time, and juvenile life sentence reform; calls to expand problem-solving courts and wrongful conviction safeguards; updates on medical release, commutation practices, and barriers to reentry; legislative changes on expungement, Medicaid, and criminal justice oversight; developments in FCC regulation of prison phone rates; and national initiatives on mental health, prison education audits, and criminal case mediation alternatives.

Location

Michigan

Source

MI-CURE News (February 2015)

Theme

Community and Resistance

Type

Advocacy Organization Records

Level 1 Tag

Advocacy Groups

Prisons

Justice Reform

Sentencing

Legislation

Pretrial & Legal Representation

Parole & Probation

Juvenile Justice

Reentry

Surveillance

Prison Conditions

Level 2 Tag

Comparative Prison Models

Appeals

Clemency & Expungement

Life Sentence

Healthcare

Prison Programming

Rehabilitation

Prison Communications

Prison Education

Mental Health and Trauma

Level 3 Tag

MI-CURE

MDOC

Date

2015-02