Michigan Legal Roundup Week of March 16–20, 2026 This week’s developments share a common thread: Michigan’s legal…
The national conversation about mass incarceration focuses on prisons. The Prison Policy Initiative’s Whole Pie 2026 report…
Michigan courts just granted $1 million to help residents restore suspended driver’s licenses. The same court system…
In 1764, Cesare Beccaria argued that punishment exceeding what is necessary to deter crime is not justice…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines became advisory rather than mandatory following People v. Lockridge, 498 Mich. 358 (2015). The…
National homicide clearance rates have declined from above 90% in the 1960s to roughly 50% today. According…
Michigan’s Department of Corrections manages a roughly $2 billion annual budget and the custody of more than…
A randomized study published in the Yale Law Journal found that defendants in Philadelphia murder cases represented…
Day of Empathy is a national advocacy event organized by DREAM that brings formerly incarcerated people, crime…
Prosecutorial role collapse is a structural failure that occurs when a prosecutor simultaneously occupies the positions of…
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