Nov 15, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From Bridge Michigan: LANSING — Michigan lawmakers are contemplating big changes to how courts handle bail during pretrial proceedings and a possible “second look” at prisoners’ existing sentences. The Democratic proposals are among several major criminal justice...
Sep 17, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From The Flint Courier News: MICHIGAN – Voting Access for all Coalition (VAAC) launched a new video series to inspire voters to cast ballots to reform the criminal legal system in Michigan. The series of two compilation videos and seven shorter individual videos can...
Sep 5, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From Detroit Free Press: A coalition of police accountability and housing advocates called for the release of police body cam footage from a fatal shooting that took place during an eviction on Detroit’s west side in July. A group of more than 30 people marched...
Aug 11, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From The Detroit News: Detroit tenant rights groups are protesting the death in July of a 45-year-old man by a court bailiff who was evicting the man from his Detroit apartment. Sherman Lee Butler, 45, was shot and killed July 12 by a bailiff, who is an independent...
Jul 29, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From Fox 2 Detroit: ANN ARBOR, Mich. (FOX 2) – Michigan Medicine employees took to the picket line Monday morning for a rally as their union pushes for a new contract. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Michigan Medicine Allied...
Jul 26, 2024 | Engage Michigan
From Michigan Advance: Fourteen years after Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured, spilling up to a million gallons of tar-sands crude oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, environmental advocates continue to speak out against Enbridge’s pipelines, calling for a...
