Title

MI-CURE News (August 2020)

Description

MI-CURE News (August 2020) covering efforts to ban involuntary servitude and pay living wages in prison; campaign to end solitary confinement; expanded voting rights for incarcerated and returning citizens; national calls for criminal justice, sentencing, and policing reform; prison education initiatives; community-based alternatives to incarceration; COVID-19-driven decarceration and probation changes; continued advocacy for free or affordable prison communication; reentry support programs and job training; wrongful conviction review expansion; and rise of progressive prosecutor coalitions.

Location

Michigan

Source

MI-CURE News (August 2020)

Theme

Community and Resistance

Type

Advocacy Organization Records

Level 1 Tag

Advocacy Groups

Prisons

Slavery & Colonialism

Sentencing

Justice Reform

Juvenile Justice

Reentry

Prison Conditions

Level 2 Tag

Prison Labor

Solitary Confinement

Prisoner Rights/Rights of Incarcerated People

Racial Disparity

Substance Use

Prison Education

Healthcare

Policing Alternatives

Police Misconduct

COVID-19

Prison Library

Comparative Prison Models

Prison Communications

Level 3 Tag

MI-CURE

MDOC

American Friends Service Committee

Date

2020-08