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MI-CURE News (November 2024) MI-CURE News (November 2024) covering innovative programming; advocacy for quality phone services in carceral settings; major court rulings on Michigan’s sex offender registry; national efforts to recognize and address brain injuries in justice-involved populations; failures in ending solitary confinement; reflections on mass incarceration’s roots and alternatives; widespread use and consequences of police deception in interrogations; collapsing private prison healthcare industry; growing concern over junk science in wrongful convictions; and shorts on new prison journalism initiatives, child-friendly visitation reforms in Vermont, and Maryland’s cancellation of parole supervision debts.
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MI-CURE News (May 2024) MI-CURE News (May 2024) covering innovative correctional programs; updates on litigation challenging Michigan’s sex offender registry fees and calling for registry reform; reports on national and gender-specific wrongful convictions, forensic science failures, and Michigan’s flawed compensation law for exonerees; legislation targeting prison conditions, solitary confinement, and aging populations; scrutiny of electronic monitoring and calls for national regulation; exposés on inadequate prison food and exploitative commissary pricing; and lawsuits against Michigan jails and telecom firms over bans on in-person visits and attorney access.
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MI-CURE News (February 2024) MI-CURE News (February 2024) covering innovative in-prison programming including employment for degreed individuals and Norwegian-style housing units; updates on free tablet and phone programs in jails; litigation progress in Michigan’s sex offender registry case; expansion of mobile mental health and urgent care services across Michigan; push for holistic defense practices and court reform; reentry supports like stimulus payments, housing stipends, and broadband training; solitary confinement bans and culture shift efforts; growing concerns over AI and facial recognition in policing; new research linking ACEs to violent offending; legislation on tuition access, juvenile justice, and transparency; and progress on expungement, voter registration, and indigent defense reforms.
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MI-CURE News (August 2024) MI-CURE News (August 2024) covering innovative prison programming including Restoring Promise units, jail animal farms, and mobile welding training; FCC action to reduce prison phone and video call costs; litigation updates on sex offender registry limits, forced prison labor, lifetime monitoring, and no-parole sentencing; state and federal legislation on medical parole, informant use, trial rights, and prison oversight; reentry efforts including Medicaid pilots, housing access, small business loans, and financial coaching; voting rights expansion and challenges to prison gerrymandering; and growing recognition of defense attorneys’ role in post-sentencing advocacy.
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MI-CURE News (November 2023) MI-CURE News (November 2023) covering the push for more humane, trauma-informed corrections through staff wellness, facility design, and holistic safety reforms; updates on sex offender registry litigation, tracking police misconduct, and public defense workloads; critiques of risk assessment tools and forensic science practices; Michigan legislation on housing, education access, juvenile justice, and medical parole; and national developments including prison phone cost elimination, commissary markup limits, parole reforms, prosecutorial accountability, and growing support to end juvenile life without parole.
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MI-CURE News (May 2023) MI-CURE News (May 2023) covering prison journalism revival; counselor certification for incarcerated Californians; food justice reforms; litigation over Michigan's sex offender registry; public defense flaws; expanded expungement; legislation on juvenile life, good time, communication access, and FOIA rights; prison labor and safety federal reforms; new opioid treatment funding; colleges supporting incarcerated students; and updates on compassionate release, prison wages, and sentencing reform.
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MI-CURE News (February 2023) MI-CURE News (February 2023) covering federal prison phone and camera reform laws; innovative prison programs in tech, trades, and ecology; sex offender registry litigation updates; bail reform; expanded opioid treatment access; improved standards and pay for Michigan public defenders; increased pardons and commutations; mental health care reforms in MA prisons; defense advocacy and wrongful conviction concerns; and a Maine prison debate team victory over MIT.
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MI-CURE News (August 2023) MI-CURE News (August 2023) covering innovative prison programming in education and arts; expanded Pell Grant access and data on educational impact; prison food and commissary cost concerns; prison phone cost reductions and free call legislation; national effort to end the trial penalty; Michigan indigent defense funding debates; legislative efforts on second look sentencing, bail reform, and good time credits; voting rights for incarcerated people; solitary confinement abolition efforts; and expanded reentry supports including IDs and Medicaid access.
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MI-CURE News (November 2022) MI-CURE News (November 2022) covering juvenile lifer resentencing expansions; new prison programs in education, therapy, and rehabilitation; prison phone cost reductions and free call legislation; advocacy for visitation and solitary confinement reform; proposed federal prison oversight legislation; sex offender registry challenges; exploitative prison economies; ABA support for decarceration reforms.
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MI-CURE News (August 2022) MI-CURE News (August 2022) covering investigations into Arizona’s prison labor system and national prison labor reform; storytelling projects highlighting incarcerated voices; continued solitary confinement reform; innovative prison education and rehabilitation programs; MDOC staffing shortages and pay increases; updates on Michigan’s sex offender registry litigation; settlement reforming cash bail practices; and nationwide updates on jury service rights, prison conditions, voting access, behavioral health units, community reintegration, federal judicial appointments, trans healthcare, prison medical care lawsuits, and solitary confinement limits.
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MI-CURE News (May 2022) MI-CURE News (May 2022) covering lawsuits against Michigan’s sex offender registry; special education reforms; expansion of free prison phone efforts; judicial reform advocacy; efforts to repeal or reform felony murder laws; progress in Michigan’s indigent defense system; push for independent prison oversight; federal Second Chance and reentry initiatives; advocacy for voting rights in prison; new laws on lynching and involuntary servitude; prosecutors opposing the death penalty; efforts to end parole and probation fees; Hope College prison degree program; and expanded religious rights in MDOC.
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MI-CURE News (February 2022) MI-CURE News (February 2022) covering Michigan’s campaign for free prison calls; FCC rate caps and GTL settlement; attorney-client call recording lawsuits; legal challenges to sex offender registry laws; push for independent prison oversight; prosecutorial reforms and conviction reviews; calls for judicial accountability and sentencing reform; efforts to reduce racial bias in jury selection; correctional health care from jail physicians; solitary confinement advocacy; juvenile LWOP reform bills; wrongful conviction reviews; and media reform in crime reporting.
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MI-CURE News (November 2021) MI-CURE News (November 2021) covering Second Look sentencing and Good Time rally at the Capitol; growing concerns over restrictive prison mail policies and surveillance; barriers to medication-assisted opioid treatment in prisons; food reform; rising life sentences for women and racial disparities in incarceration; wrongful conviction reforms and jailhouse witness regulation; expansion of prison education programs nationwide; updates on Michigan’s sex offender registry law and tether advocacy; and policy changes on maternal health care, juror pay, prison healthcare contracts, electronic monitoring, and juvenile clemency.
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MI-CURE News (August 2021) MI-CURE News (August 2021) covering Michigan prison food reform and transparency efforts; reinstatement of Pell Grants; COVID and justice-impacted resources; drug and dental care crises in prisons; solitary confinement reform; new prosecutor accountability tools; reformist prosecutors and sentencing policy; reforms on free prison calls, gender identity housing, deceptive interrogations, and youth incarceration; and educational and civic achievements by incarcerated individuals.
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MI-CURE News (May 2021) MI-CURE News (May 2021) covering prison food reform and gardening programs; tablet access and proposed free prison calls; expansion of public defender and social worker defense programs; STEM education efforts by and for the incarcerated; 2020 exoneration trends and misconduct patterns; trial penalty; prosecutorial reform initiatives; new juvenile LWOP policie; SCOTUS ruling on juvenile sentencing; Virginia bill on autism and mental illness in court; and Michigan AG’s attempt to seize prisoner stimulus checks.
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MI-CURE News (February 2021) MI-CURE News (February 2021) covering calls to revive prison newspapers; challenges in prison education and Pell Grant restoration; lack of support for incarcerated people with disabilities; probation and parole reform; broken prison grievance systems; support strategies for children of incarcerated parents; backlog in competency evaluations; major legislative wins on expungement, licensing, and SORA; trial penalty clemency efforts; prison food quality issues; restorative justice dialogue programs; wrongful conviction reviews; and recidivism-reduction program standards.
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MI-CURE News (November 2020) MI-CURE News (November 2020) covering barriers to family support in prison; statewide reforms in indigent defense; DNA evidence misconduct ; Black prosecutors call for justice transformation; widespread law enforcement misconduct in exoneration cases; major expungement and SNAP access reforms; proposed limits on solitary confinement; COVID-driven early releases; jail education programs; prison-based cat sanctuary; and Delaware’s elimination of solitary confinement.
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MI-CURE News (May 2020) MI-CURE News (May 2020) covering harmful classification practices that hinder rehabilitation; court rulings and stalled legislation on Michigan’s sex offender registry (SORA); efforts to reduce jail and prison populations during COVID-19; new bills to improve conditions for incarcerated women; racial bias in risk assessment tools; trauma-informed interventions like SURE Moms; critiques of felony disenfranchisement; recommendations to overhaul pretrial systems and eliminate cash bail; juvenile abuse; updates on life sentences and solitary confinement reform in Canada.
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MI-CURE News (February 2020) 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.
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MI-CURE News (August 2020) 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.
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MI-CURE News (November 2019) MI-CURE News (November 2019) covering economic barriers to rehabilitation—high phone costs, medical copays, and low wages; jails repurposed for housing and mental health care; innovative jail education programs; expanded financial aid for incarcerated Michiganders; reforms on solitary confinement, pregnant prisoners, and juvenile justice; gaps in mental health and addiction treatment; push for forensic science oversight; critiques of crime-focused media coverage; efforts to restore voting rights; and growing momentum to ban private prisons and reduce incarceration.
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MI-CURE News (May 2019) MI-CURE News (May 2019) covering the overbroad classification of violent offenses and calls to reduce extreme sentences; proposed reforms including second-look sentencing, presumptive parole, and expanded expungement access; Michigan jail population review and sex offender registry litigation; prison phone call affordability and telecom accountability; implementation of early counsel access improving pretrial justice; critiques of prison food, commissary costs, and subminimum wages; and stories of leadership, writing, and redemption.
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MI-CURE News (February 2019) MI-CURE News (February 2019) covering the ACLU’s Smart Justice campaign for bail and sentencing reform; mentorship and enrichment programs and a new Vocational Village for women; prosecutorial reform; national efforts to improve probation and parole systems; critiques and innovations in bail reform, including Detroit’s Bail Project; clemency trends among governors and presidents; growing support for holistic defense models; debate over conscientious acquittals and jury nullification; and continued exposure of flawed forensic science.
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MI-CURE News (August 2019) MI-CURE News (August 2019) covering advocacy for ending life and excessive sentences; Michigan’s new licensing initiative for returning citizens; trauma-informed court practices and the movement to end prison gerrymandering; critical reassessments of life without parole, video hearings, and the decline of jury trials; updates on Does v. Snyder, diversion programs, and compassionate release legislation; innovative hiring models removing barriers for people with records; and wide-ranging reforms across the U.S. on charging practices, misdemeanor ethics, sentencing for abuse survivors, and more—advancing justice that is equitable, humane, and evidence-based.
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MI-CURE News (November 2018) MI-CURE News (November 2018) covering homelessness among the formerly incarcerated and housing access reforms; the overlooked value of lifers and aging prisoners in rehabilitation; reductions in prison phone call costs; the decline of prison farming programs; a national push to reimagine prison with dignity-centered practices; ongoing issues access to legal resources; wrongful convictions and the limits of constitutional protections; persistent racial disparities in the justice system; and statewide updates on parole reform, occupational licensing, juvenile justice, and court-watching efforts.