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| Editorial - Prison reforms are not optional |
| By Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 05/30/2007 |
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LANSING, MI - Facing a $1.6-billion budget gap next year, Senate Republicans continue to treat Michigan's $2-billion prison system like a sacred cow. With 51,000 inmates -- more than at any time in the state's history -- Michigan spends far more on prisons than surrounding Midwest states, but its streets and communities are no safer. The answer is not more of the same. Yet that's essentially what a report by a state Senate subcommittee on prisons and public safety, headed by Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, called for Tuesday. In the name of public safety, it opposed even modest changes in sentencing and parole policies proposed by the Department of Corrections. Those reforms could enable the state to close two or three of Michigan's 42 prisons over the next year and a half. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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