Bill Text: MI SB0939 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Corrections; parole; department to provide quarterly report providing reasons inmates beyond their earliest release date have not been paroled; require. Amends 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.201 - 791.285) by adding sec. 31b.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-07-13 - Referred To Committee On Criminal Justice [SB0939 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0939-Engrossed.html

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SB-0939, As Passed Senate, June 9, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 939

 

 

May 3, 2016, Introduced by Senators NOFS, JONES, HORN, GREGORY, SHIRKEY, COLBECK, PROOS, EMMONS, WARREN, ROCCA, BRANDENBURG, GREEN, BOOHER and KNOLLENBERG and referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitiveness.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

 

"Corrections code of 1953,"

 

(MCL 791.201 to 791.285) by adding section 31b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 31b. (1) The department shall submit a quarterly report

 

to the senate and house committees responsible for legislation

 

concerning corrections issues detailing the number of prisoners who

 

have reached their earliest possible release on parole date under

 

the requirements of this chapter, but who have not been granted

 

parole.

 

     (2) The report required under this section shall categorize

 

the total number of parole denials by the number of prisoners who

 

have been denied parole for the following reason or reasons:

 

     (a) The nature and circumstances of the offense for which the

 

prisoner is incarcerated at the time of the parole consideration.

 

     (b) The prisoner's institutional program performance,

 

including whether or not the prisoner completed all required

 

programming.

 

     (c) The prisoner's institutional conduct, including the number

 

of major misconduct charges for which the prisoner has been found

 

guilty and security classification increases over the previous 5

 

years and the year immediately before parole consideration.

 

     (d) The prisoner's prior criminal record. As used in this

 

subdivision, "prior criminal record" means the recorded criminal

 

history of a prisoner, including all misdemeanor and felony

 

convictions, probation violations, juvenile adjudications for acts

 

that would have been crimes if committed by an adult, parole

 

failures, and delayed sentences.

 

     (e) Other relevant factors under the parole guidelines

 

developed by the department under section 33e considered by the

 

parole board in denying parole.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.