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In 2011 Michigan will spend $2 billion on Corrections
 
Addressing the social and economic costs of Michigan's prison system

 

The General Fund contribution to the School Aid Fund has declined by 92%, resulting in cuts to numerous programs for elementary and high school students.

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The CAPPS   Focus

 See new issues link with information on sex offenders.  Click here.
Current CAPPS newsletter Consensus  newspaper
● Prisoner education: creating opportunities for success
● Housing, visiting policies thwart prisoner families.
● Higher telephone charges burden prisoner families.
● Programs for sex, assaultive offenders: an update.
● The News from CAPPS.
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Jeff Gerritt: Jump in phone rates will further isolate Michigan prisoners, The Detroit Free Press, Aug. 25, 2011.  Click here.

CAPPS, MI-CURE examine contract that will nearly double prisoner telephone rates

Prisoner contact with family and friends is essential to successful reintegration and thus, a smaller prison population.  However, a recently negotiated contract with a new telephone vendor will nearly double the phone rates.  CAPPS and MI-CURE analyzed the bidding process to determine the reason for the increase.  The results can be found below:

• CAPPS analysis

• MI-CURE analysis

• Vendor Bid Price Comparisons

√  Fix our prison policy: Spend less on Corrections to protect resources for other important services by Barbara R. Levine, executive director, CAPPS, The Lansing State Journal, April 10, 2011

√  CAPPS co-sponsors symposium on corrections spending with Citizens Research Council and The Center for Michigan; symposium materials available on-line. 

√  CAPPS recommends principles to guide corrections cost cuts

√ CAPPS identifies potential corrections savings of
$374 million

√ CAPPS Director promotes sentencing credits in Free Press debate. 
 

Corrections
in the spotlight

 

 

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
 By Jeff Gerritt, The Detroit Free Press, July 17, 2011

Jeff Gerritt: New corrections director says re-entry initiative, cutting prison population are important
 The Detroit Free Press, July 17, 2011

Michigan spends more by keeping prisoners longer
By Kathy Barks Hoffman, AP, Lansing Bureau, April 3, 2011

Two audits raise new questions about prison spending
By John Bebow of the Center for Michigan March 22, 2011

 

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