Our coalition urges lawmakers to prioritize legislation to reform our broken and inefficient criminal legal system so that Michigan doesn’t continue to fall behind other states in the fight against mass incarceration. Our current system puts retribution and warehousing ahead of public safety, creating a huge financial burden without doing as much as it could to reduce crime in our communities.
The Work
- Eliminate Fines and Fees
- Childcare Fund Act
- Expanded Diversion
- Community Violence
Pre-Incarceration
Fund Indigent Defense
Support HB 4630 to expand indegent defense services.
End the Exception of Forced Labor While Incarcerated
Amend the state constitution to prohibit slavery or involuntary servitude, even if someone commits a crime. MI HJRM, MI SJRJ.
… and More
- Prison Body Cams
- Pre-Incarceration
- Cash Bail
- Mandated Use of Force Policy
- Ban Chokeholds
- Limit No-Knock Warrants
- Sentencing Commission
- Duty Intervene
- Danny’s Bill
- “End REID Interrogation Technique”
- Re-entry (Work In Progress)
Currently Incarcerated
Good Time
Sign the ballot initiative for prisoners to earn credits for turning their lives around. (Michigan Justice Advocacy)
Second Look
Several bills—HB4556, HB4557, HB4558, HB4559, HB4560—give judges the ability to reconsider especially long prison sentences after a length of incarceration.
End Prison Gerrymandering
Count prisoners on district maps at their last address, not where they are incarcerated. SB0494. (VAAC)
… and More
- Medical Parole
- End Solitary Confinement
- Expand MDOC Oversight
- “Scholarships for Incarcerated Citizens”
- Ban Juvenile Life Without Parole
- Duty to Intervene
- Productivity Credits
- Eliminate Prison Co-Pays
- FOIA Access Restoration
- Reduce Phone Fees
- Right to Visit
Re-Entry
- Fair Housing
- Vital Docs