As the Governor Whitmer and the legislature develop the FY2024-2025 budget, we are calling on you for your support in with our Investing in a Safer Michigan Budget Recommendations.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
- You can let your voice be heard by submitting your information below to our sign-on statement to elected officials and other workforce policy decision-makers.
- Use the form below to submit your information. We'll take care of the rest.
BACKGROUND:
Michigan has been a leader in smart criminal legal reforms that prevent crime, address the root causes of violence, and reduce the harmful impacts of mass incarceration on communities of color and low income families.
Michigan is safer and more prosperous when we:
- Prevent crime through community violence intervention rather than only count on police to respond after the fact.
- Ensure that we are not improperly holding people in prison by adequately funding conviction integrity units and appeals to criminal convictions.
- Prepare people for successful reentry and employment while they are incarcerated by eliminating barriers to education and medical care.
- Remove barriers to employment and housing by ensuring that people who have benefited from Clean Slate expungements know about this and no longer check the felony conviction box.
A coalition of Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI), Citizens for Prison Reform, Force Detroit, Michigan Cure (MI-CURE), Organization of Exonerees, Progress Michigan, Safe & Just Michigan, and State Appellate Defender Office have developed a set of Investing on a Safer Michigan Budget Recommendations. We encourage you to endorse our recommendations by completing the form below.
Contact: Chuck Warpehoski | Program Director, Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration | chuckw@mi-cemi.org
