Services | MICHIGAN COLLABORATIVE TO END MASS INCARCERATION

Changing Emergency Responses

Bright Future - Distant Past by Montney

Decarceration of Women

Mother’s Bond by Melissa Belanger

Ending Life & Long Sentences

Mirror Evolution of America by Dr. C. Jerome Harden-Bey The efforts to end Life and Long Indeterminate Sentences in Michigan have been ongoing and arduous. Led by MI-CEMI Steering Team...

Open MI Door – End Solitary Confinement

Money, Time, and the Parole Board(BUZZARDS) by Tim Brownell The Open MI Door campaign to end solitary confinement in Michigan is part of the national Unlock The Box campaign to...

CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT & OVERSIGHT FOR INCARCERATED CAREGIVERS

Mother’s Bond by Melissa Belanger Incarcerated parents face a multitude of issues while inside—from adverse conditions of confinement affecting the health of pregnant women, to a dissolution of family bonds...

JAIL/BAIL REFORM

Money, Time, and the Parole Board(BUZZARDS) by Tim Brownell Pretrial detention is unwarranted for large numbers of people. It impacts the quality of defenses to criminal charges because detained defendants...

SORA REFORM

Bright Future - Distant Past by Montney In response to litigation by the ACLU of Michigan, the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program and the Oliver Law Group, federal courts...

PROSECUTORIAL REFORM

Mirror Evolution of America by Dr. C. Jerome Harden-Bey Prosecutors are gatekeepers to the criminal justice system and decisions prosecutors make about individual defendants can exacerbate racial and other circumstances...

Promotional Materials

MI-CEMI POWERPOINT This presentation includes an overview of the issues that MI-CEMI aims to address and gives a brief description of our goals and work groups. You can use it...

Length Of Stay

THE PROBLEM Michigan has the longest average prison length of stay of any of the states examined by the Pew Center on the States in 2009. The length of stay...