Archive-Mass Incarceration in Michigan

Items

• Written Testimony of Tammi Smith in Support of HB 4518, 4594-4596
• Minutes of House Judiciary Committee, June 23, 2010
  "Minutes of The House Standing Committee on Judiciary," June 23, 2010, Folder 5, Box 20, Legislature, House of Representatives, 2009-2010, Archives of Michigan
• Written Testimony of James M. Dankovich in Support of HB 4518, 4594-4596
• Written Testimony of the NOVJL in Opposition to HB 4518, 4594-4596 and SB 173-176
• Written Testimony of Jodi Robinson in Opposition to HB 4518, 4594-4596
• Written Testimony of Michael A. Conat in Support of HB 4518, 4594-4596
• Written Testimony of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Support of HB 4518, 4594-4596
• Testimony of Human Rights Watch in Support of S.Bs 6, 9, 28, and 40
• Testimony of Julie D. Keefer in Support of H.B. 4518 and 4594-4596
• Testimony of Felecia Tyson in Support of H.B. 4518, 4594, 4595, and 4596
• H.B. 4596
• Minutes of House Judiciary Committee Hearing, May 26, 2009
• Minutes of House Judiciary Committee Hearing, May 6, 2009
• MDOC, "Reduce Juvenile Waivers and Prison Admissions and Close MYC," 2005
  This document describes the reasons for the Juvenile Waiver Group's intentions to close MYC, and the manner in which they intended to do so.
• Adam Liptak, New York Times, "To More Inmates, A Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars"
  Article about the "life means life" movement that is keeping juvenile lifers locked up longer than the judges intended across America
• House Bill 4596, Michigan House of Representatives, 2009-2010
• House Fiscal Agency, Analysis of H.B 4518, 4594-4596 (2009-2010)
• Governer Engler Reform Plan
• Juveniles Serving Life Without the Possibility of Parole (ACLU Jan 24 2008)
  This report was presented to the MI House of Representatives by the ACLU Coalition in order to pass HB 4402-4405, which would have abolished JLWOP in Michigan.
• Number of Children Sentenced to LWOP in Michigan by Decade
  This graph demonstrates the racially disparate effects of tough-on-crime laws on JLWOP sentencing in Michigan
• Map of Michigan, JLWOP arrests by county and race
  This map  of Michigan demonstrates the concentration of JLWOP cases in Wayne county, a majority-black county. A darker-colored county indicates a higher population of African Americans, while a lighter-colored county indicates a higher population of White residents. Each red dot represents a white child sentenced to LWOP, while each black dot represents a child of color sentenced to LWOP.
• Young Outlaws photo 1986
  This photograph from the 1986 edition of the Detroit Free Press's "Young Outlaws" series reflects the "juvenile super-predator" panic that would become mainstream in the 1990s, leading to a flood of punitive crime control legislation and action
• Graphs of Juvenile arrests in Michigan 1980-2002
  This data, collected by the FIA Director's Work Group on Juvenile Waivers and compiled into the "Juveniles in the Justice Systems Report" by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan shows how violent crime and juvenile crime actually declined between 1980 and 2002, even as the number of JLWOP sentences skyrocketed.
• Juvenile (17 and Under) Life Sentences in Michigan 1962-2012
  Graph of juveniles (17 and under) serving LWOP in Michigan prisons at time of Miller decision. 204 were 17 years old and 162 were waived and 16 or under. Note the spikes before and during passage of 1988 and 1996 laws, then a decline right after, suggesting prosecutors and judges more likely to waive under media and political scrutiny then after the get-tough legislation passes.
• Granholm Papers, Public Attitudes Towards JLWOP