Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending

Addressing the social and economic costs of prison expansion

    

Research Reports

Publications based on research conducted  by CAPPS.

The high cost of denying parole: an analysis of prisoners eligible for release
 

No way out: Michigan's parole board redefines the meaning of 'life'
 

Penny-wise & pound-foolish: Assaultive offender programming and Michigan's prison costs
 

Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons: an examination of the prison costs.

When 'life' did not mean life: A historical analysis of life sentences imposed in Michigan since 1900.

 

 

EPIC-MRI poll results:  Public supports CAPPS' recommendations

In Focus

 

CAPPS has moved
Our new address:
403 Seymour Avenue
Suite 200

Lansing, MI 48933
We have the same telephone number
(517-482-5573)


 Detroit News looks at how keeping Michigan prisons bulging saps higher education, other services. Click here.
 

"The number of prisoners must decline significantly or economic adjustments and inflationary pressures will keep the MDOC budget at 20 percent or more of all General Fund spending."

Read testimony give by CAPPS Executive Director Barbara Levine on the proposed 2009 fiscal year budget. Click here.

Report from Pew Charitable Trust reveals Michigan      to be one of four states that spends more on prisons   than on higher education.  Click below to see the  report:
     
One in 100: Behind Bars In American 2008

 

What we could buy if we didn't spend so much on keeping so many people in prison:

 WWW.BalancingOurPriorities.org

 

CAPPS Updates

   Basic Facts

   Six Strategies

  Nine-State Comparison

   Granholm must now deliver prison reforms

 By Jeff Gerritt, Detroit Free Press, Editorial, Feb. 14, 2008

 


Winter 2008 Consensus
released

 Parole guidelines bill makes progress

  MDOC budget tops $2 billion

  Legislative experts say cutting prison population will be challenging

Parolable lifers win class action lawsuit

Click here

 

6 Strategies for Right-Sizing
 Michigan's Prison Population

With Michigan's incarceration rate far exceeding that of other Great Lakes states and the MDOC budget surpassing that of higher education, CAPPS offers 6 ways to safely reduce the state's prison population and save hundreds of millions of dollars.  Click here to read.  See also the fall 2007 issue of Consensus.

 

Grand Rapids Press urges "overdue examination" of cost of corrections in state budget. 

The state needs to undertake an analysis of exactly who is behind bars. Are there less expensive but safe alternatives to imprisonment for some nonviolent offenders? Along with that should come a look at the parole process. A decreasing number of prisoners have been paroled in the last few years, a reaction to high profile cases of parolees who committed crimes.

See Press Room link on left for more news articles and editorials on CAPPS issues.

 
 

 Contact CAPPS at: 403 Seymour Ave., Suite 200
Lansing, MI 48933
Phone: 517-482-7753
Fax:     517-482-7754
E-Mail: capps@capps-mi.org

 

 

 

New profile   alert!

Faces behind
the figures


Christopher Murzin
Technical Rule Violator


Aldo Gallina
Denied Parole


Derek Foster
Parolable Lifer

 
“Under cool appraisal we might well discover that we have more prisons than we need, rather than too few. That is because many offenders present little risk of further serious harm and do not require incarceration for public safety.”

 --- William Kime, Former Deputy Director Michigan Department of Corrections
 

 

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