TOMORROW Join us as we kick off the MI-CEMI reentry table. The latest budget shows that reentry is under attack, we need to link up across the state to push for better reentry policies in MI!
Don't miss what Tony Gant has to say on WDET's The Metro on why we need to end housing discrimination against people w/ convictions in MI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aon7eT61qSk
The budget dust has settled, join Voting Access for All Coalition & MI-CEMI to break down what it means for housing, criminal justice reform, education, etc. Oct 10, 12:30pm, bit.ly/VAACFRIDAYS
Thank you Right On Crime for lifting up a peer reentry program in your podcast. Effective reentry promotes safety and is something folks left, right, & center can get behind https://youtu.be/XbMSe1nUjwY
🚨MDOC needs to modify their strip search policy to be less intrusive.
To make the most of this win the next battle will be to make sure that impacted community voices are part of the review process—something the MDOC has rarely (ever?) done well.
This is a good change. MDOC had tried to limit legislative oversight by requiring 72 hour notice before a legislative visit. Legislature clapped back & said "let us in."
Now it's on us to make sure they use that oversight capacity.
Reductions to parole board funding? Like they say in recover, let's play the tape out.
The parole board needs to have the resources to get their decisions right: too strict and lives and $ is wasted w/ unneeded incarceration; to loose & there's a risk to community.
yep, cuts the reentry funds for community partners 😡 We need to separate support from supervision, the community partners provide trust and support no parole officer can. They should be funded, not cut.
If they aren't getting enough food at chow, don't have fam putting $ on their account, and they can't make enough at prison wages, what's the alternative? Theft of hustle.
Hangry prisoners + the need to turn to illicit activities to get 🥗 = less rehabilitation, more violence
Here's another big one: * Cuts to prison food aren't as bad as we feared, but food in there is already s***. Folks can't focus on rehabilitation when they are hangry!
confession time, the programs cut (Flip the Script, Public Safety Initiative, Residential alternative to Prison) aren't ones we hear about much from our members. What do you think about these cuts?
4. The $5 copays for prison healthcare = 1 week's pay @ prison wages. $.5M to eliminate these copays would mean fewer people delay care, more disease detected early, lower total cost of care, and more returning citizens who are healthy enough to work.
