A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled “Corrections code of 1953,” by amending sections 20g, 33, 34, 34a, 35, 36, 38, 51, 65, and 65a (MCL 791.220g, 791.233, 791.234, 791.234a, 791.235, 791.236, 791.238, 791.251, 791.265, and 791.265a), section 20g as amended by 2000 PA 211, sections 33 and 34 as amended by 2019 PA 14, section 34a as amended by 2012 PA 259, section 35 as amended by 2019 PA 13, section 36 as amended by 2020 PA 398, section 38 as amended by 1994 PA 217, section 51 as amended by 1998 PA 269, section 65 as amended by 2019 PA 16, and section 65a as amended by 2012 PA 599; 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
