Join CPR & families across Michigan who have lost loved ones or experienced harm in custody as we call for accountability, independent oversight, and meaningful change in Michigan’s jails and prisons.
Assaults on corrections officers deserve serious attention—but preventing future violence requires understanding the conditions that affect everyone inside the facility. Recent reports of assaults on corrections officers at St. Louis
For more than a decade, visitation has been one of Citizens for Prison Reform’s highest advocacy priorities. We have heard countless stories from families who spend hours driving across Michigan
As deaths continue to impact both Michigan’s women’s and men’s prisons, our family advocates at Citizens for Prison Reform have been busy supporting not only grieving families in the community,
J’Mauri Jackson/Carceral State Project: A Case Study of Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility
Communication is a lifeline, not a luxury. Millions of people behind bars and their families know this, but a new report by our partners at @worthrises makes the case shockingly clear.
Yesterday, I came across an email from April 2014, a desperate plea I had written to the Legislative Corrections Ombudsman. Finding that and reading it again stopped me in my
Art & Poetry by Michael Leak #198660 A reflection on isolation, family separation, and the ache to be remembered Every week, we hear from people inside Michigan’s prisons who are
As Black History Month invites reflection on the past, it also demands attention to the present. The policies and practices that allow family separation in Michigan’s prisons are part of
Safety Cannot Be Built on Segregation Recently, a letter circulated from the Michigan Corrections Organization (MCO) calling for expanded segregation units and increased use of high security housing across Michigan
