Michigan Cost Cutting Measures
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm proposes cost-cutting measures including early outs for as many as 7,500 prisoners — nearly a thousand of whom include rapists, murders and pedophiles. News from the Charlevoix Courier.
The governor claims the cuts are a necessary part of the move to stem a projected $1.5 billion shortfall in the state’s 2011 budget, but some law enforcement officials statewide see the move as putting the public in danger.
“They are proposing to release dangerous criminals back into society,” said Charlevoix Prosecuting Attorney John Jarema. “They are letting out murderers, rapists, sexual predators and still are not addressing the cost to house them.”
The governor estimates nearly 7,500 prisoners will be released in four to six months of passage of the budget as-is.
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