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Budget Cuts to Corrections Accelerate Path to Tragedy

To: STATE EDITORS

Contact: Tom Tylutki, President, or Mel Grieshaber, Executive Director, both of the Michigan Corrections Organization, +1-517-485- 3310

LANSING, Mich., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week the State Legislature passed the Department of Corrections Budget with approximately $50M in cuts. These cuts will come in many forms however the one that sounds the greatest alarm -- for officers, prisoners, and the community at large -- is a reduction in staff to a prison system already strained by short-staffing and rife with violence.

The Departments plans to eliminate two positions per facility statewide will put another hole in the wall we form when we walk those blocks ...

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