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CAPPS
Publications
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'
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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
Techniques for Safely Reducing Michigan's Prison Population
(November 6, 2001)
Miscellaneous
Including
remarks from
Lynn Jondahl, Barbara Levine, Tom Clay, Charles Ostrom, Robert
Diehl, Judge Patrick Bowler, Judith Greene and Sharon Claytor
Peters
sponsored by CAPPS, the Michigan Council on Crime and
Delinquency and the Michigan Collaborative for Juvenile
Justice Reform. (October 29, 2001)
Most of these
documents are in Adobe PDF form and require Adobe Acrobat Reader
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