A bill to amend 1893 PA 118, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to state prisons, to state houses of correction, and branches of state prisons and reformatories, and the government and discipline thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith,” by amending section 33 (MCL 800.33), as amended by 1999 PA 148; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
Requires a day-for-day sentence reduction in each month that an inmate does not commit “major misconduct”. Credits earned must be applied to the minimum and maximum sentence length, as well as to the parole eligibility date once half a prisoner’s sentence has been served. These bills reward criminal behavior behind bars and increase the likelihood that prisoners will be released back into our communities before reforming the behavior that got them incarcerated in the first place.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice
