Ep. 11 - Reducing Costs in Criminal Justice

Links

• Michigan spending one-fifth of its general fund budget on prisoners (USA Today)

It cost the state — and by extension, taxpayers — an average of $36,106 to incarcerate a single person in Michigan in 2017.

You can buy a new Ford Explorer for that, according to Kelley Blue Book.

At that rate, a single prisoner sentenced to 30 or more years would cost Michigan taxpayers more than $1 million to incarcerate.

• Budget Briefing: Corrections (pdf) (Michigan House of Representatives)

FY 2018-19 MDOC Budget

$2,019,056,200 – Total spending authority from all revenue sources

• “Fix the damn roads” - Gretchen Whitmer
• The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Wikipedia)