MI-CURE News (May 2014)

Item

Title
MI-CURE News (May 2014)
Description
MI-CURE News (May 2014) covering updates on the FCC ruling on prison phone rates; concerns over MDOC overcrowding, staffing issues, and rehabilitation program access; programming backlog statistics for VPP, SOP, and T4C; challenges in prison education and vocational training; developments in food service privatization with Aramark; national efforts to reform solitary confinement policies; a partnership between MSU and MDOC on prison healthcare models; Medicaid expansion for parolees; discussions on clemency reform at state and federal levels; and advocacy suggestions for legislative and MDOC policy changes.
Location
Michigan
Source
MI-CURE News (May 2014)
Theme
Community and Resistance
Type
Advocacy Organization Records
Level 1 Tag
Advocacy Groups
Prisons
Prison Conditions
Level 2 Tag
Prison Communications
Overcrowding
Prison Programming
Understaffing
Prison Education
Privatization
Solitary Confinement
Comparative Prison Models
Healthcare
Appeals
Clemency & Expungement
Level 3 Tag
MI-CURE
MDOC
Date
2014-05