Powerful prison truths
Inmates
deliver a message and some love in youth
program
by Jeff
Gerritt, the Detroit Free Press, Jan.
12, 2012. Click
here.
Jeff Gerritt: Closing Mound prison in
Detroit adds to system's racial
imbalance,
Detroit Free
Press, Jan. 6, 2012. Click
here.
Jeff Gerritt: Pilot program in UP tests
an alternative to traditional prison
segregation,
Detroit Free Press, Jan.
1, 2012. Click
here.
Jeff Gerritt: MDOC plans to use tasers
in prisons -- and that's shocking,
The Detroit
Free Press, Sept. 30, 2011. Click
here.
MDOC to Close Mound Correctional
Facility; Competitively Bid One Facility
and Prisoner Health and Mental health
Care Services,
FYI, Special Edition, Sept. 28, 2011.
Click
here.
Prison policy changes are working to
reduce number of inmates, by Jeff
Gerritt, The
Detroit Free Press, Sept. 8, 2011.
Click
here.
Head of Michigan prisons seeks to pare Corrections'
mandate,
The Detroit News, Aug. 21, 2011. Click
here.
Prisons director: Security a
concern in privatizing meal service
Paul Egan/ Detroit
News Lansing Bureau, July 22, 2011
An interview with Corrections
Director Dan Heyns: Ex-sheriff now sees value of
re-entry programs