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MAY 20, 2022

Similarly, Beauchamp of Jackson College said that some students who haven’t already earned a degree and aren’t Pell-eligible can still use state financial aid through Michigan Reconnect , a scholarship for state residents older than 25 that, unlike many state financial aid programs, doesn’t have restrictions for incarcerated students.

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JULY 26, 2021

To that end, there are times where the FBI has stepped in and used their power to keep our country safe, including last year, when it was revealed that the FBI played a vital role in foiling a plan where right-wing extremists were to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer , Buzzfeed News extensively reported. .

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The campaign, which is part of a multiyear, multi-million-dollar effort by the group to boost voter turnout among crime victims, will primarily concentrate on battleground states, including Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, where competitive elections take place and a fresh influx of voters can have a significant impact.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

WILX out of Michigan spoke to BBB representative Troy Baker about avoiding “charity scam” callers and other scams while considering donations during GivingTuesday and throughout the rest of the year.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“Of the many costs that the War on Drugs inflicts on the Black community, the practice of deliberately charging innocent defendants with fabricated crimes may be the most shameful,” University of Michigan Law Prof. Samuel Gross, lead author of the study and Senior Editor of the Registry, said in a statement accompanying the release.

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JULY 9, 2021

The states with the largest number of federal hate crime investigations recorded over the period were: Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas and California. Also, 85 percent of defendants convicted in this time frame received a prison sentence while about 14 percent received probation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The county license holds came after Michigan-based company Variscite NY One argued that the requirements that retail applicants have both a “significant presence” in New York and a criminal record for a marijuana-related conviction under state law, results in “noncompensable damages” to the Michigan company.

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MAY 7, 2021

A 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative identified more than 30 states, including Texas and Michigan, that it said were driving a “gender divide” in imprisonment. Statistics suggest that women are the fastest rising demographic in America’s incarcerated population, even as the number of male inmates has declined.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This spring, Michigan put into place changes that go the farthest in giving people a second chance. Over the last 20 years, expungement law has made strides with state-level reforms of which criminal records are eligible for expungement. As of April 2021, at least 11 states have automatic record expungement laws, says Pew.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

In addition, I subscribe to various podcasts and newsletters focused on legal technology. The research I do for the Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast and for my classes at Michigan State University College of Law and University of Michigan Law School keep me up-to-speed as well.

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JUNE 13, 2022

According to Axios , these mass shootings occurred across 15 states — Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Nebraska and Oklahoma. According to the Gun Violence Archive , the bills in the Senate and New York come as the U.S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Crime Report detailed earlier this year that a University of Michigan study found that most people eligible for expungement don’t apply for it — only 6.5 percent — but that people who do get their criminal records wiped tend to have “extremely low subsequent crime rates, comparing favorably to the general population.”

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JULY 6, 2022

Welfare benefits may reduce the likelihood that disadvantaged youth will become involved with the justice system, according to a study by two economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

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JULY 25, 2022

The groups sued the chief judge and magistrates of Michigan’s 36th District Court and the Wayne County sheriff, arguing that it is unconstitutional to incarcerate people because they are poor and can’t make bail.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1916, at a single Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan, workers also reported almost 200 severed fingers and 75,000 other injuries. In 1913, Henry Ford invented the assembly line and cut the time it took to produce a car from 12 hours to 90 minutes.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Questions were also raised about how much informants encouraged a domestic terrorism plot in the case of a group of Michigan men charged with planning to kidnap the state’s governor. No terrorism case since Sept. 11, 2001, has been thrown out because of entrapment.

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MARCH 14, 2022

associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, about her research on the impact of the criminal justice system on marginalized groups. The Conversation U.S. Her work emphasizes the needs of defendants in the criminal justice system, who she refers to as justice-involved people.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Around 43 percent of young adults reported using marijuana last year, up from 34 percent in 2016 and 29 percent in 2011, according to the Monitoring the Future study by the University of Michigan, which annually surveys substance abuse behaviors since 1975 and had some 5,000 participants in the latest survey. . .

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

jurisdictions where two-thirds or more of the prison population are serving sentences of at least a decade are: Georgia, West Virginia, Alabama, Montana, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, and Washington, DC. The 12 U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

In 2000, a 6-year-old boy fatally shot his 6-year-old classmate, Kayla Rolland , in their classroom at Buell Elementary School in Michigan while their teacher lined up other students in the hallway. The shooting followed a dispute on the playground. How do kids this young typically get guns?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Mack’s trainings have also included self-described constitutional attorney Katherine Henry, who has denounced the concept of case law, Michigan constitutional sheriff and election denier Dar Leaf, and Pastor David Whitney, who declared at a Tea Party rally in 2010 that citizens had a “the God-given right to secede.”.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Students leave Michigan high school following shooting. A 15-year-old male student has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place at Oxford High School in Michigan November 30, 2021, killing three students and critically or seriously injuring others, reports the New York Times. Photo via CNN.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Officials at the university have issued an apology for using an AI tool to auto-generate an email that attempted to address the recent mass shooting at Michigan State University and comfort students, Jennifer Korn reports for CNN.

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JULY 21, 2021

The FBI informants who halted the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. The news outlet called the Michigan kidnapping case a “major test for the Biden Administration’s commitment to fighting domestic terrorism—and a crucible for the fierce ideological divisions pulling the country apart.”.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Similarly, Tenisha Yancey, now serves on the judiciary committee of the Michigan state legislature, says her state’s passage of a major criminal justice overhaul , was a product of bipartisan agreement. The measures also eliminated a major driver of racial bias in Michigan, she said. Tenesha Yancey.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Two recent examples noted by TRT World are the plan to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer and the Jan. In terms of the plan to kidnap the Michigan governor, 12 informants were found to have been involved in the conspiracy to kidnap Witmer , according to Buzzfeed News. 6 Capitol riot. .

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APRIL 14, 2022

Digit, a bipedal robot from Agility Robotics, being tested at the University of Michigan. Photo by Joseph Xu/University of Michigan Engineering. First responders are called upon to face a growing list of dangers, ranging from a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and wildfires in North America to mudslides in Brazil and floods in Australia.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

times more often than men, that threats of death and gun violence are more than twice as common as any other form of threat, and that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona possess the highest share of incidents against poll workers and election officials. Meanwhile, U.S.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An article published in 2021 by University of Michigan Law School researchers argues that the law which excludes inmates from receiving Medicaid funds is detrimental to inmate health. The original researchers cited overcrowded prisons driven by mass incarceration as the main contributing problem.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Students leave Michigan high school following shooting. While many states have laws that hold gun owners liable for failing to secure weapons around children, Michigan does not. Photo via CNN.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

In Michigan, Prosecuting Attorneys Eli Savit and Karen McDonald established conviction review units that each saw their first exonerations in 2022, while in Portland, Oregon, District Attorney Mike Schmidt oversaw his first resentencing cases.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The report studied 39,253 people serving life-without-parole sentences in 20 states, representative of three-quarters of the LWOP population across the country.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

30 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, which left four teenagers dead. Michigan legislators are set to discuss a bill that would impose a maximum penalty of five years in prison on a gun owner in the state when a minor gains access to an unsecured weapon and someone is injured or killed. “If Slotkin said.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Zeoli , Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. . Lisa Geller , director of state affairs at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, contributed to this article.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Institute for Justice client James King, an innocent college student who was beaten and choked unconscious by undercover officers in Michigan, defeated a qualified immunity defense in 2019 only to encounter additional layers of protection for his attackers.

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MAY 17, 2022

The Registry is a joint research project of the University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society, University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law.

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APRIL 18, 2023

In their Michigan office, S3 hired a CEO participant Channor Lewis , who has been providing help desk support to the Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy for the past 10 months. One of these partners is Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3), a woman-owned, global IT consulting and business services corporation.

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