This week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order creating a bipartisan task force to work on jails and pretrial detention in our state. The committee will include members from the legislature, the courts, and the executive branch and will attempt to reduce jail populations, ensure due process, and bring down recidivism rates while…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan January 18, 2019 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org Progress Michigan Calls for Investigation of Scabies Outbreak at Women’s Prison Another privatized public service at the center of problems in Michigan’s prison MICHIGAN — Progress Michigan is calling for an investigation into an out-of-state medical service provider contracted by the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan December 19, 2018 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org Progress Michigan Unveils the Official Unofficial Rick Snyder Gubernatorial Portrait The People’s Portrait is an accurate description of the failed Snyder years LANSING — Today, Progress Michigan unveiled the unofficial official Rick Snyder gubernatorial portrait. The framed artwork was displayed…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan February 7, 2018 Progress Michigan has been calling for cancellation since beginning MICHIGAN — According to MIRS News, Gov. Rick Snyder is planning to “reverse course on using private vendors for prison food service” following years of Progress Michigan calling for such action. The out-of-state, for-profit food service…
By Matthew Kovac Three years ago, my future coworkers asked why I wanted to join them in Michigan. I was Skyping in from the Chicago suburbs, fresh from journalism school and just 40 minutes away from a metropolis overflowing with its own racial and economic injustices to expose. Why pick up and move? The…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan May 9, 2017 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org ‘Overwhelming Stench’: New Emails Highlight Continued Problems Under Outsourced Prison Food Contract After problems, millions in fines, Trinity contract must be cancelled MICHIGAN — On a summer day at Kinross Correctional Facility, inmates were told by Trinity food service workers…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan August 18, 2016 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org Michigan Should Follow DOJ Example and End Privatization in Prisons DOJ to end use of private prisons, citing safety and cost concerns MICHIGAN — The Department of Justice announced today that it plans to end the use of federal private prisons,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan July 28, 2016 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org Under Mike Pence, Indiana Scored a D- on Transparency and Accountability Center for Public Integrity gave failing grades to Pence administration for FOIA laws MICHIGAN — With Mike Pence campaigning in Michigan, voters should be aware that Indiana received a failing…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan June 22, 2016 Contact: Hugh Madden, 734-250-2070, hugh@progressmichigan.org Attorney General Schuette Lawsuit Another Charade To Deflect Blame Schuette should be honest, Republican governing philosophy ruined Flint LANSING — Today, Attorney General Bill Schuette announced a civil lawsuit against three companies, Veolia North America, Lockwood, Andrews & Newman and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan June 15, 2016 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org History Shows EMU Should Not Privatize Food Services Outsourcing public jobs to private, for-profit companies has proven problematic YPSILANTI — Progress Michigan is urging the Eastern Michigan Board of Regents to not privatize the university’s food service. The board is considering Chartwells,…