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MI: Getting smart on crime ? and prison time

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Getting smart on crime ? and prison time Jeff Gerritt January 22, 2009 A study by a far more credible source than me ? the Justice Center at the Council of State Governments ? backs what I?ve been saying the last eight years: We?re locking too many people up. Michigan?s way high incarceration rates are bankrupting the state while failing to make us safer. The Justice Center reports are available here.) The policies of the Michigan State Parole Board ? which denies releases for often inexplicable reasons, even when people are old and sick ? have caused much of the problem. The Parole Board has loosened up in the past year, but there are still 12,000 prisoners in Michigan past their earliest release date. Those 12,000 people, together, cost taxpayers $420 million a year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).