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| Clemency for 100 inmates in 2 years |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 01/18/2010 |
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LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm has granted clemency to 100 inmates held in Michigan's prisons over the past two years -- a pace of commutations far higher than any in the last four decades, according to state statistics. The Lansing State Journal reported Sunday that during Granholm's first five years in office, the one-time federal prosecutor approved 18 commutations. All those prisoners had medical issues, and many died within months or even days of their release. But in 2008 and 2009, Granholm commuted the sentences of 100 prisoners, according to statistics from the Michigan Department of Corrections. That is far more than any two-year period in the last four decades. Officials told the newspaper the reasons for the increase stem from the state's budget crisis and a state-commissioned report that said Michigan is keeping people in prison too long and spending too much money on its $2 billion-a-year prison system. Read More. |
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