{"id":5196,"date":"2019-08-29T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2019-08-29T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:33:03","slug":"sen-irwin-introduces-bill-to-ban-private-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2019\/08\/29\/sen-irwin-introduces-bill-to-ban-private-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Irwin Introduces Bill to Ban Private Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Sen.<strong>&nbsp;Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor)&nbsp;today&nbsp;introduced a bill to ban privately&nbsp;owned prisons or detention centers in Michigan.&nbsp;Senate Bill 489&nbsp;would&nbsp;prohibit&nbsp;the&nbsp;state&nbsp;from contracting with a private detention facility with the purpose of housing any person in the custody of the State of Michigan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrisons should&nbsp;not be run for profit, and their&nbsp;incentives are deeply insidious and contrary to our solemn responsibility to provide justice to all,&#8221; Sen. Irwin said. \u201cThese types of facilities make money&nbsp;from&nbsp;high incarceration rates and incentivize the prison\u2019s revolving door,&nbsp;rather than reducing recidivism and improving public safety.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan\u2019s only private prison, North Lake Correctional Facility, reopened in 2019 after being awarded a 10-year, $370 million contract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house non-citizens&nbsp;detained for immigration offenses. Around the country, private detention facilities have contracted with the federal government to house migrants who have entered along the&nbsp;southern border. This is seen as a booming economic opportunity to private prison companies as they benefit from President Trump\u2019s immigration policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Irwin\u2019s legislation is designed prevent state contracts with private detention facilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent studies suggest that Michigan\u2019s crime rates have fallen,&nbsp;but county jail and&nbsp;prison populations have tripled. No statewide incarcerated-population database exists, making it difficult to identify the exact number of prisoners in Michigan.&nbsp;Gov. Gretchen&nbsp;Whitmer recently signed an Executive Order to create the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration to study the lack of data and make policy recommendations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am proud of the work that the state of Michigan has done to reduce crime over the past several years,\u201d Sen.&nbsp;Irwin&nbsp;said. \u201cThis is the next step in ensuring that profiteers cannot take advantage of our taxpayers by mistreating our people.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illinois became the first state to ban private detention centers in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor)&nbsp;today&nbsp;introduced a bill to ban privately&nbsp;owned prisons or detention centers in Michigan.&nbsp;Senate Bill 489&nbsp;would&nbsp;prohibit&nbsp;the&nbsp;state&nbsp;from contracting with a private detention facility with the purpose of housing any person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sen. 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