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MI: Sacred Cows Block Real Prison Reform

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Wednesday, January 28,2009 Sacred cows block real prison reform by Kyle Melinn Don't claim to be a Korean War veteran if you're not. In Michigan, it's a three-year felony. Sodomy is still a crime in Michigan, as is dueling, adultery and compelling a woman to marry. Yet, trying to get Republicans to strip these arcane crimes from the books or to be a bit more sensible on sentencing for real crimes like low-level drug offenses, forgery and counterfeiting is like trying to make real reform in the state's prison system. It?s next to impossible. Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration told legislative Republicans 18 months ago that if it was serious about cutting corrections costs, there's really only one way to do it: Lower the state's comparably enormous prison population with realistic sentences that aren't driven by political opportunism...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).