Michigan Votes Forum

"Roughly 1.8 million people in Michigan have crim­inal records, nearly one in four adults. Almost 1.3 million of them, or one in six adults, carry felonies, Michigan State Po­lice data show. Whether or not they include pri­son or jail time, such convictions can carry lifetime penal­ties. They re­strict where people live or go to school, what pro

by the way, I do think that making a misdemeanor or misdemeanors or even a non-violent felony publicly searchable after a person has served their sentence and after 5 years of the completion of the sentence have passed is a violation of the 8th amendment of the US constitution regarding cruel and unusual punishments. Cruel and unusual punishment describes

Does anyone know haw many people have 1 felony or 2 misdemeanors in Michigan? That could help organize the cause. If we get organized say with a facebook or some other way like twitter and the politicians see that by passing this good law they would also get votes and by not passing it they would loose votes (and we can make sure of that by talking