A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending sections 12 and 31 of chapter IX and section 17f of chapter XVII (MCL 769.12, 769.31, and 777.17f), section 12 of chapter IX as amended by 2012 PA 319, section 31 of chapter IX as amended by 2020 PA 395, and section 17f of chapter XVII as amended by 2012 PA 611.
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
