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MI: Business joins fight to right-size prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Business joins fight to right-size prisons Posted: March 8, 2010 Detroit Free Press Business leaders have taken a lead role in efforts to reform Michigan's oversized prison system. Legislators should pay attention. Lansing can't resolve its long-term budget crisis without right-sizing the Department of Corrections. Nor can a state that spends more on prisons than higher education compete in a 21st Century economy. The Detroit Regional Chamber deserves credit for creating a detailed plan to reduce corrections costs as part of an overall effort to restructure state government. For the first time, the Chamber will devote a session on prison issues and spending at this year's Mackinac Policy Conference. The Chamber supports bills reinstating good-time credits, and it has recommended reconstituting the state Parole Board into a body of professional civil servants, as well as examining sentencing guidelines and expanding prisoner re-entry programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).