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| Cutting Prison Sentences Fails First Test |
| By freep.com |
| Published: 03/17/2010 |
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposal to cut prison sentences for well-behaved inmates failed its first test in the Legislature on Tuesday. The plan to restore so-called good time credits for prisoners was left out of a 2010-11 budget adopted by a Senate subcommittee, along with $130 million in savings the administration forecast from closing four or five prisons. The Senate alternative assumed savings instead from canceling a scheduled 3% raise for state employees and ordering the Michigan Department of Corrections to implement other cost-cutting. But the prison budget adopted by the subcommittee still came in at nearly $2 billion -- $32 million higher than Granholm's original proposal. Subcommittee Chairman Alan Cropsey, R-Dewitt, said the wholesale release of prisoners -- MDOC officials estimated that about 5,000 inmates could be released by the end of the year if good time credits were reinstated -- "doesn't make sense at all." "The governor gave us a budget based on a policy that is not going to happen," he said. Read More. |
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