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REFORM Alliance was founded in January 2019 by Michael Rubin, Meek Mill, Jay-Z, Michael Novogratz, Clara Wu Tsai, and Daniel Loeb.At its founding, the philanthropists pledged a combined $50 million to the organization and to create a bipartisan response to what it considered unjust sentencing laws in the United States.
The organization also provides an extensive continuing legal education (CLE) program in locations throughout Michigan. Additionally, MAJ's Lansing-based government affairs staff lobbies legislators and state agencies to advance a pro-civil justice legislative agenda, intended to preserve and enhance the rights of injured people.
The Prison Policy Initiative published the first-in-the-nation report on the new jail trend of banning letters from home and requiring loved ones to write on public postcards. [8] The National Institute of Corrections called the report, "required reading for policy makers and anyone working with individuals in jail custody." [9]
The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) oversees prisons and the parole and probation population in the state of Michigan, United States. It has 31 prison facilities, and a Special Alternative Incarceration program, together composing approximately 41,000 prisoners. Another 71,000 probationers and parolees are under its supervision.
Currently, incarcerated individuals can choose to have the prison submit their personal information to the Department of State, which then uses it to finalize the person's registration once they ...
It consistently criticises what it considers the ineffectiveness and excessive public expense associated with mass incarceration and extended prison terms. In 2016, the organisation produced a state-by-state breakdown on the disenfranchisement of citizens convicted of felonies entitled Six Million Lost Voters. It documented 6.1 million ...
Brittany K. Barnett (formerly Byrd) is an American attorney and criminal justice reform advocate.Through the organization Buried Alive, which she co-founded with Sharanda Jones and Corey Jacobs, she came to national attention when she and her co-counsel, MiAngel Cody, litigated the release of 17 people in 90 days.