After I told one of my friends — who happens to be a corrections officer at a state prison — about Governor Rick Snyder’s plan to privatize prison food services, his response was short, but spoke volumes. He sighed and said, “You don’t mess with prisoners’ food.” Indeed, in the highly-regimented life of a prisoner,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Contact: Jessica Tramontana, 517.974.6302, jessica@progressmichigan.org Statement from Progress Michigan Executive Director Lonnie Scott on the Senate Republicans Failing Michigan Residents LANSING — Senate Democrats made a resolution to immediately end the 2013 fiscal year, which would allow the Medicaid expansion bill to take effect on January 1, 2014 as the law was intended.…