MI Criminal Justice

Our program advocates on behalf of people in prison. We work to get people out of prison. And build a world without cages.

[Vera Institute of Justice @verainstitute]

Thank you, Representative @KaraHope7 for championing the safety of Michiganders inside and outside of the Michigan Department of Corrections. You brought #SecondLookMI to a successful vote out of the Criminal Justice committee.

Second Look would create a vital and safe way to relieve pressure on understaffed prisons, while giving people who can safely return home an opportunity to contribute to their communities.

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@dananessel as you care about LGBTQIA + people, remember those who have been targeted & traumatized and land in prison. Over 40% of women in jail and prisons ID as lesbian or bi.#secondlookmi is about survivors! 90% of Women in prison have survived sexual and physical violence.

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@dananessel I’m not sure why you are so adamantly opposed to SMART policy reforms that are actually meant to help the most marginalized, including #lesbians.40% of women in jails and prisons identify as lesbian or bisexual? So #secondlook offers relief to LGBTQIA people.

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Rep @KaraHope74 thank you for listening to the thousands of people on the ground who have been asking for major changes to our criminal legal system!! We are so grateful for your leadership. #passsecondlook thank you CJ committee @EmilyDievendorf @StateRepSteph @NoahArbit

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@stephanielily thank you for championing this work! Now let’s get it through the finish line in 2024!! Great work Cozine!

[Stephanie Chang @stephanielily]

Read this op-ed by Cozine Welch, Jr!

"At the end of the day, you do what you are taught. I’m grateful that I was taught how to be a better person by the people who are incarcerated..., and I believe many of them deserve a second chance." #mileg
https://t.co/gC2x0tsdG4

[The Sentencing Project @SentencingProj]

OP-ED: "Michigan has some of the country’s strictest sentencing laws. Second Look is smart policy that will make Michigan’s criminal legal system more just, more humane, and less wasteful."—@AFSCMICJProgram's Natalie Holbrook-Combs & @SADOmich's Maya Menlo https://t.co/4t1Z65ptZi

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@GovWhitmer hold this true for women in https://t.co/4YsffMKi3D prison,it is a woman, a”medical provider” and the security machine of the state-which trumps a woman and doctor always.if you believe what you said above, please consider the prison a war on women’s bodies and spirits. #freedom

[Prison Creative Arts Project @umichPCAP]

Hope you’re enjoying your weekend thus far!

Check this event that our friends at American Friends Service Committee in Ypsilanti are putting on! No registration is required and it’s bound to be a fun time. See you there!

#education #learning #mixer #community #fun #prison

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Join us July 8 from 3:00 to 7:00 for good food, good fun, and time to build power to move second look legislation in the Fall

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Please come out on June 9! River walk. Good food ! Good people! Music, games, networking. Share stories. #secondlookmi #endlwop People who serve the most time in prison are the ones who make our communities better and stronger upon returning home.

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@justcitydetroit we are so thankful for you all!! #secondlook #endlwop

[Detroit Justice Center @justcitydetroit]

We're honored to be part of the coalition pushing for #SecondLookMI. Thank you @stephanielily, @JeffMIrwin, @JimmieWilsonJr1, @SentencingProj, @AFSCMICJProgram, @safeandjustmi , @SADOmich, @NationOutside, @AccessVoting, @MIJustadvocacy, @mi_cemi, & more!

https://t.co/yF6VaI7kGf

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

We are so glad to be part of this amazing coalition.We’ve been holding lifers close for years in this work. Knowing many are the forces for peace we have been waiting for! @stephanielily gets this too!her leadership and courage are building a more liberated and just future.

[@MI-CEMI @mi_cemi]

Strong coalition pushing for #SecondLookMI. Thank you @stephanielily @JeffMIrwin @JimmieWilsonJr1 @SentencingProj @AFSCMICJProgram @safeandjustmi @SADOmich @justcitydetroit @NationOutside @AccessVoting @MIJustadvocacy & many more! https://t.co/Bqbb0GWkrL

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Join us April 16 & 19 a time for SECOND LOOK - https://t.co/0mFYnRtZrL

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Day of Empathy and Second Look Press Conference, February 23--LANSING - https://t.co/YBr28Wt59q

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@KernelEnchilada Love!

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

Assets to our communities. Yet we keep them locked away and spend thousands of dollars to torture them in the confines of a system focused on security and control. #secondlook #endlwop

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@SHDetroit the people who do the best time and serve our communities upon release are often the people who committed deep harms in their pasts. As your guest said, the “evidence” says people age out of “crime”. We would like to add that those same people have

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

The experience and ability to help intervene and interrupt violence in our communities. But we keep people locked up for 47 years for something they did when they were 20. To what end? We know hundreds of people who are reformed by their own initiative and motivation who could be

[MI Criminal Justice @AFSCMICJProgram]

@JoshuaBHoe great thread on Justice Bernstein’s attempts to derail Justice Bolden’s refreshing & equitable vision during her 1st week in office.Pete is a champion for people in and out of prison!Bernstein is wrong and now compromised. #thisisracism #thisissexism

[Joshua B. Hoe @JoshuaBHoe]

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This is so shameful

Pete Martel came back from incarceration after a long time in prison (a decade spent in solitary confinement) and earned a law degree at Wayne State University...he has been a model citizen since his return...he has worked tirelessly to help people