Current Legislative Testimony

"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."

Testimony give by CAPPS Executive Director Barbara Levine on the proposed 2009 fiscal year budget before House Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections, April 15, 2008.

"We need to pull back from . . . policies that have fueled prison growth, without any proven impact on public safety, and return . . . to practices considered normal during the 1990s."

CAPPS executive director at: Joint hearing before House
Judiciary Committee and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections, March 19, 2007

"We need structural changes that will significantly reduce the prisoner population in an ongoing, consistent way. "

Testimony of Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections, February 20, 2007

The CAPPS Agenda

CAPPS issues new recommendations --Improving and Enforcing Parole Guidelines

Research Reports

When 'life' did not mean life: A Historical Analysis of Life Sentences Imposed in Michigan Since 1900

Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons: an examination of the costs


• Penny-Wise & Pound-Foolish: Assaultive offender programming and Michigan's prison costs
   

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

• "The high cost of denying parole: an analysis of prisoners eligible for release, the CAPPS data report on parole-eligible prisoners. "
   

CAPPS Consensus (newsletter)

Spring, 2008
Winter, 2008
Fall, 2007
Spring, 2007
Winter, 2007
Fall, 2006
Summer, 2006
Spring, 2006
September, 2005
Spring, 2005
December, 2004
September 2004
May 2004
January 2004
Fall 2003
Summer 2003
Fall 2002
Summer 2002

Other Recommendations

• CAPPS Recommendations for Reducing Excessive Incarceration
  (March 7, 2003)
  
  

• Techniques for Safely Reducing Michigan's Prison Population
  (November 6, 2001)
  

Miscellaneous

• Presentations from the May 9, 2003,  Conferencece: “Cost-Effective Corrections: Setting Priorities for Scarce Resources”

Including remarks from Lynn Jondahl, Barbara Levine, Tom Clay, Charles Ostrom, Robert Diehl, Judge Patrick Bowler, Judith Greene and Sharon Claytor Peters

• Notes on the Michigan Department of Corrections Budget for 2002

• Goals and Strategies: Summary of Proposals from 2001 Conference on "Correcting Our Priorities," sponsored by CAPPS, the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Michigan Collaborative for Juvenile Justice Reform. (October 29, 2001)

 

 

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