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MI: State's policy has imprisoned its future

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State's policy has imprisoned its future A Lansing State Journal editorial January 1, 2009 Before lawmakers return to Lansing to begin their work, they should take a pledge: "I will not leave the Capitol at the end of 2009 without enacting fundamental reforms in how Michigan handles prisoners." Lawmakers' performance on this issue will reverberate through the rest of state government. Corrections reform gives Michigan a chance to invest in its people and public services. Failure means Michigan residents will see a state government impotent to help them. Michigan is the Midwest's king of incarceration. The state has about 50,000 prisoners and another 70,000-plus on parole or probation. Michigan's incarceration rate towers over those of neighboring states...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).