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Michigan's new corrections mantra: "Get out and stay out"

While the Texas Legislature is not in session this year, other states are struggling to cut corrections budgets because of the budget slump, notably Michigan. Now the focus has gone from "lock 'em up" to "get out and stay out," reports the Detroit News ("Michigan prisons focus on released inmates," April 7):Michigan's prison system has undergone a culture change from locking up law breakers for as long as possible to being more selective about whom to put behind bars, state Corrections Director Patricia Caruso told officials at a prisoner re-entry conference Tuesday.The state closed 10 prisons last year and has curbed its inmate population from 51,500 to 45,000 since 2007, Caruso said. The number of women prisoners has been cut by 30 percent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).