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Article: Budget Cuts to Corrections Accelerate Path to Tragedy
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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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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