Title

MI-CURE News (February 2020)

Description

MI-CURE News (February 2020) covering low wages, court fees, and debt as barriers to reentry; calls to end court-imposed fees and assess fines by ability to pay; innovative prison programs—peer-led rehab, tech training, book clubs, parole prep, and prison newspapers; expanded reentry support—housing stipends, ban-the-box hiring, and job fairs; reforms restoring jury and voting rights; mental health diversion and crisis response models; push to expand expungement and end Medicaid bans for pretrial detainees; and new laws on mental health discharge planning and college aid for incarcerated people.

Location

Michigan

Source

MI-CURE News (February 2020)

Theme

Community and Resistance

Type

Advocacy Organization Records

Level 1 Tag

Advocacy Groups

Prisons

Reentry

Legislation

Justice Reform

Prison Conditions

Level 2 Tag

Prison Labor

Fines

Fees

Cash Bail

Prison Programming

Prison Education

Restorative Justice

Comparative Prison Models

Prisoner Rights/Rights of Incarcerated People

Abolition & Decarceration

Mental Health and Trauma

Appeals

Clemency & Expungement

Healthcare

Level 3 Tag

MI-CURE

MDOC

Date

2020-02