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MI: Several More Prisons to Close & More Parole

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Monday, May 18, 2009 Michigan inmates fall to seven-year low Charlie Cain / Detroit News Lansing Bureau Lansing -- Michigan's prison population is at a seven-year low and for the first time a limited number of maximum security prisoners are being double-bunked as a way to save money. The state has 47,706 inmates, down more than 7 percent from the record population of 51,454 in December 2006. Corrections officials say they are on track to reduce the population to 44,000 by Oct. 1. That should allow the state to close several prisons besides the two prisons and one prison camp that have ceased operations this year. With tax collections tanking, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and state lawmakers are eager to trim prison costs, which at $2 billion annually account for about one-fifth of all general fund spending...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).