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Prisoners receive college degrees at graduation ceremony inside a Michigan prison

Prisoners earn Calvin degrees behind bars By Cory Morse May. 09, 2022 Scenes from the Calvin Prison Initiative commencement at the Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia on Monday, May 9, 2022. Prisoners earned degrees from Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary...

Federal Prison Compassionate Releases Soared In 2020

By Walter Pavlo - Forbes March 14, 2022 COVID-19 did something that years of criminal justice reform had failed to do; cut prison populations. The CARES Act, enacted in April 2020 to face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed prisons to reduce the number of...

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: Let prisoners earn time off their sentences

By Hani Barghouthi - The Detroit News April 3, 2022 Pontiac — Kwame Kilpatrick urged reform of Michigan's criminal justice system Sunday, expressing the life-saving value of hope during one of a growing number of public appearances made by the former Detroit mayor...

Opinion: The cost of prison phone calls is staggering. Congress has a chance to change that.

March 26, 2022 Washington Post Editorial Board Picking up the phone and placing a call in the United States today requires little planning, and not much thought — unless you’re in prison or jail, in which case the simple action becomes a tremendous undertaking. Congress now...