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| Corrections chief rocks and rolls |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 11/03/2009 |
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Michigan Corrections Director Patricia Caruso has taken steady shots from prosecutors this year, but Caruso told me this morning she gets rock star treatment outside the state. The reason: Corrections has lowered Michigan’s prison population by 5,000 in the last two and half years, while crime in Michigan and prison recidivism rates have gone down, despite the worst economy since the Great Depression. Michigan is one of the few states that is closing prisons and reducing its prison population, though it still spends more on prisons than on higher education. “People everywhere in the country ask me what’s going on here and how are we doing it," Caruso told me in her Lansing office. “They look at Michigan as the leader.’’ Caruso credits some of the state’s success to the Michigan Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative, which aims to help parolees find housing, jobs and other services. The number of parolees returning to prison has dropped from one in two to one in three. MPRI, she said, has allowed the state Parole Board to safely release more inmates, after they have served at least their minimum sentence. Read More. |
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