MI-CURE News (February 2015)

Item

Title
MI-CURE News (February 2015)
Description
MI-CURE News (February 2015) covering proposals for reducing prison admissions, sentence lengths, and recidivism; critiques of Michigan’s sentencing guidelines, parole system, and lack of access to education and rehabilitation programs; support for presumptive parole, reinstatement of good time, and juvenile life sentence reform; calls to expand problem-solving courts and wrongful conviction safeguards; updates on medical release, commutation practices, and barriers to reentry; legislative changes on expungement, Medicaid, and criminal justice oversight; developments in FCC regulation of prison phone rates; and national initiatives on mental health, prison education audits, and criminal case mediation alternatives.
Location
Michigan
Source
MI-CURE News (February 2015)
Theme
Community and Resistance
Type
Advocacy Organization Records
Level 1 Tag
Advocacy Groups
Prisons
Justice Reform
Sentencing
Legislation
Pretrial & Legal Representation
Parole & Probation
Juvenile Justice
Reentry
Surveillance
Prison Conditions
Level 2 Tag
Comparative Prison Models
Appeals
Clemency & Expungement
Life Sentence
Healthcare
Prison Programming
Rehabilitation
Prison Communications
Prison Education
Mental Health and Trauma
Level 3 Tag
MI-CURE
MDOC
Date
2015-02