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7 Feb, 2008 4:33 am
... .... Sen. Alan Cropsey, a DeWitt Republican who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee and the appropriations subcommittee that oversees corrections spending, warned Wednesday that the Democratic governor may not be able to get the changes she wants to lower prison costs ... years. Space in
crowded county jails would have dropped by 2,000 beds in a year, according to the Michigan Department
of Corrections. But the measures went nowhere. County officials said they feared being saddled with more inmates ...
25 Nov, 2007 7:20 am
... Coordinator of Vocational Education for Students with Disabilities Office of Career and Technical Preparation Michigan Department of Career Development 201 North Washington Square Lansing, MI 48913 ... 30008 Lansing, MI 48909 Phone: (517) 373-8439 State Correctional
Education Department of Corrections BCF-Treatment and Education P.O. Box 30003 ... Phone: (734)
994-8421 (ask for Tom Mussio) Habitat for Humanity Affiliates for Michigan Habitat for Humanity of Lenawee County 202 North Main Street, 2nd
Floor ...
9 Jan 9:29 am
... I imagine this title might be fitting for editorials in a large number of state papers. Here are a few snippets: With Michigan facing yet
another budget crisis, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers should finally adjust the Department of Corrections operational costs and policies to fit ... deficit this fiscal year and a whopping $1.5 billion deficit next year.... But as Michigan's corrections costs have escalated, numerous proposals to reduce them have been ignored. And calls ...
30 Oct, 2006 3:18 am
... Argument Date: October 30, 2006 Lorenzo Jones and Timothy Williams both filed suit against the Michigan Department of Corrections on the grounds that the treatment they received in jail violated their Constitutional
civil rights. The Circuit Court held ... . See Brief for Respondents at 27-28. How the Supreme Court decides these condensed cases will reflect its view of the correct balance of
burden between inmate plaintiffs and the judiciary. These cases will either require prisoners to be more ...
8 Dec, 2006 3:21 am
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Western District of Michigan [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that the Michigan Department of Corrections [official website] in contempt of court
for failing to conform with medical care requirements mandated by the court in a prior ruling. The court ordered [injunction, PDF] the department to correct its medication and staff deficiencies on
28 Sep 7:49 am
9-28-2009 Michigan:LANSING -- One of the biggest budgets, for the Michigan Department of Corrections, proved to be one the easiest to resolve as lawmakers work to fashion an overall spending
agreement for state government with just three days left before the Oct. 1 start of the 2010 fiscal year.House and Senate negotiators Sunday agreed to reduce prison expenditures by
$42.7 million less than
29 Nov, 2008 5:34 pm
... concerns that they were contaminated by dangerous chemicals. Months later, Donald Alger discovered that his original intuition was correct and the trees were indeed
contaminated with four types of volatile compounds. Results showed that the trees were ... land and groundwater as well. Alger immediately knew exactly who to blame, the nearby
landfill. DEQ Fights Back The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality reportedly has been
attempting to fight back against Alger and his claims regarding ...
25 Jun 5:42 am
... who is being released. Here are a few of the details: The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office is suing the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) for a list of state felons scheduled for potential early release this October. The
27-page lawsuit ... said the prosecutor's office has been rebuffed several times -- both informally and pursuant to the Michigan Freedom of
Information Act -- by the MDOC when it asked for a list of inmates to be interviewed in 2009 by the Parole and Commutation Board for ...
17 Aug, 2006 1:31 pm
... into the healthcare inmates receive at correctional facilities As part of a Free Press investigation into the medical care provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections and Correctional Medical
Services Inc. of Missouri, a discovery was made that in hundreds of cases, diseases have been misdiagnosed, undiagnosed or treatment is delayed or denied. In one instance, an inmate's
cancer went undiagnosed for twenty months. Many of ...
9 Sep 9:25 am
That's the title of Tresa Baldas' report posted at National Law Journal. LINK Michigan prosecutors are suing the state Department of Corrections over the release of hundreds of violent offenders, alleging murderers and rapists are
being paroled with ... ," said Joshua Marquis, an executive committee member of the National District Attorneys Association. "It's more aggravated in Michigan because of their acute financial problems," said Marquis, district attorney in Clatsop County, Ore., who himself is ...
25 Oct, 2007 2:22 pm
... we have no guidance, or announcements about forthcoming guidance, from the Department of Treasury. Small business owners and entrepreneurs
are wondering: How exactly am I going to collect this tax and comply correctly with this law? How much time will I have to ... tax will go into effect. There are literally
hundreds of regulations on the applicability and administration of the sales tax in Michigan. Over the next few weeks, I'll be poring over
those, under the assumption that those, by analogy, ...
2 May, 2008 6:05 am
... state is struggling to pay for such priorities as education, health care and police. Some of the top thinkers regarding Corrections
strategies are convening in the capital today to discuss reforms that could help the state get a handle on prison spending without ... and top 56,000 within five years. "Our efforts to
grow Michigan's economy and keep our state competitive are threatened by the rising costs in the Department of Corrections," Gov. Jennifer Granholm told The Detroit News for its series.
12 Jun, 2008 1:05 pm
... General Fund budget is spent on the Department of Corrections. That $2 billion a year may rise to
$2.6 billion a year by 2012, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan said last month ... Nearly every branch of state government has faced
deep budget cuts during Michigan's prolonged economic depression. Our lawmakers, after a year of bloody budget battles ... spends just 17 cents
on prisons for every dollar spent on colleges and universities? Michigan leaders should go there, and find out. They may learn ...
14 Apr, 2008 5:32 am
... law enforcers are hesitant to spend less by changing sentencing guidelines or paroling more prisoners. 'Our efforts to grow Michigan's
economy and keep our state competitive are threatened by the rising costs in the Department of Corrections,' said Gov. Jennifer Granholm. 'We spend more on prisons than we do on higher education, and that has got to change.' " "Michigan's system is the nation's sixth-largest overall, and ranks 15th among the states in the ...
9 Sep, 2007 9:29 am
... has another effective editorial, entitled "Stop the state prison drain: Sentencing, parole reforms are key to getting state Corrections
costs in line." This latest editorial hits similar themes as this earlier one on the costs to Michigan of ever-increasing incarceration rates.
Here is how it starts: Michigan's super-sized prison system has put the state on financial lockdown. The Department of Corrections is largely responsible for the state's ongoing budget crisis and the ...
2 May, 2008 1:26 pm
... heard her story that she just happened to be with a person who was selling heroin," said Russ Marlan, spokesman for the state Department of
Corrections. "The file we have is very different." LeFevre's crimes likely caused many and serious ripples ... article provides more details
about LeFevre's life and crimes in the 1970s, and it concludes with this notable suggestion from the Michigan prosecutor in charge of a drug
task force at the time she was originally sentenced: If he were prosecutor today, ...
13 Apr 7:24 am
... terms. Here are excerpts (which include helpful links): As legislation to end juvenile-life-without-parole sentences in Michigan remains
stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee, some court watchers are warning that the controversial sentence may not be in tune ... they were age 17 or younger. Seventy percent of them
are African American, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Michigan, which currently spends approximately 20 percent of it's general budget on corrections, has the third ...
25 Oct, 2007 4:28 pm
... we have no guidance, or announcements about forthcoming guidance, from the Department of Treasury. Small business owners and entrepreneurs
are wondering: How exactly am I going to collect this tax and comply correctly with this law? How much time will I have to ... tax will go into effect. There are literally
hundreds of regulations on the applicability and administration of the sales tax in Michigan. Over the next few weeks, I'll be poring over
those, under the assumption that those, by analogy, ...
4 Jul, 2007 5:25 pm
... used or intended to be used to facilitate any violation of this article ...." Forfeiture proceedings under the administrative section of the Michigan Public Health Code are not within the offending police officer's primary zone of interest. The ... Appeals judgment below and we further conclude
that the Court of Appeals in In re Forfeiture of United States Currency reached the correct result. The dissent: B. MAJORITY'S REDEFINITION OF EXCLUSIONARY RULE While the
majority purports to apply this law ...
16 Apr 11:50 am
... of another publicly accessible program that will display greater amounts of potentially damaging information about dangerous trucking companies in Michigan and throughout the United States. Not much is known about the contents of CSA 2010 as of now. The DOT ... through targeted roadside inspections,
focused off- and on-site investigations, development of cooperative safety plans and corrective consent agreements. CSA 2010 will also implement a new safety measurement system
called BASIC: Behavioral ...
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