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MI HR0242
Resolution
Status
Introduced
3/1/2022
Primary Sponsor
Jewell Jones
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AI Summary
- Urges the state of Michigan to accelerate efforts to reduce mass incarceration, which has increased 500 percent over the last 40 years while crime rates have decreased
- Notes that over 50,000 Michigan residents are confined in prisons or jails, with at least 100,000 booked into local jails annually, and the pre-trial population has tripled since 1978
- Identifies that communities of color are disproportionately impacted, with Black men six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men and overrepresentation of Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaskan Native populations in Michigan's prison system
- States that mass incarceration has not been shown to substantially improve public safety and creates an unsustainable financial burden on the state while contributing to overcrowding, health care neglect, and staff shortages
- Recommends implementing strategies including diversion and deflection programs, reforming sentencing and parole, improving prison health programming, and funding reentry services
Legislative Description
A resolution to urge the state of Michigan to accelerate efforts to reduce mass incarceration.
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Judiciary
3/1/2022
Committee Referrals
Judiciary3/1/2022
Full Bill Text
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