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Reducing corrections spending
CAPPS co-sponsors symposium on
corrections spending with Citizens Research Council and
The Center for Michigan; symposium materials available
on-line .
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CAPPS' Analysis
CAPPS recommends principles to guide
corrections cost cuts
CAPPS identifies potential corrections
savings of
$374 million
What’s wrong with this picture?
Fewer prisoners, more spending raises many questions,
Consensus, Fall 2010.
Enrolled Senate Bill
1153, Michigan Department
of
Corrections
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010-2011
CAPPS testimony on SB 1153
( 2011 MDOC
appropriation legislation) before
House Subcommittee on Corrections Appropriation,
May 18, 2010.
CAPPS Recommendations for Reducing Excessive Incarceration ,
March 7, 2003
EPIC-MRI
poll commissioned by CAPPS shows
Michigan voters want less
spending on prisons, more on
crime prevention,
September 2004.
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Other Views
Corrections Background Briefing,
by Bob Schneider, associate
director, House Fiscal Agency, January 2011; illustrates through graphs and
charts where money appropriated for the MDOC has been
going relative to its prisoner population.
Michigan's Prison Health Care:
Costs in Context
Reducing Corrections Spending
Issue Paper,
by Steve Angelotti, Fiscal Analyst and Sara Wycoff,
Intern. Senate Fiscal Agency, November 2010
A
BLUEPRINT FOR COST-EFFECTIVE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN
Modeled on the ABA Blueprint for
Cost-effective Pretrial
Detention, Sentencing, and
Corrections Systems,
prepared
by Prisons and Corrections Section,
State Bar of Michigan, adopted
February 2003
Growth in
Michigan's Corrections System:
Historical and Comparative
Perspectives
by
Citizens
Research Council of Michigan, June
2008
Corrections
Coalition gains early traction with incoming
Snyder Administration;
a report
from the Center for Michigan,
by John Bebow,
Dec. 15, 2010
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Addressing the social and economic
costs of
Michigan's prison system |
“There is little
question that any
significant effort to reform Michigan’s General Fund
budget needs to begin with the Michigan Department
of Corrections.”
--Detroit Chamber of Commerce
Sept. 10, 2008
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