Meek Mill and Jay-Z‘s criminal justice reform organisation REFORM Alliance.On Monday (January 4), three new laws were passed that will significantly reshape the US state’s probation and parole system.Laws SB 1048, SB 1050 and SB 1051 will reduce adult felony probation sentences in Michigan from five years to three years, prevent endless extensions on misdemeanour and felony probation terms, limit jail sanctions for technical probation violations and require parole supervision terms to be tailored to a person’s individual risks and needs.Now that Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed the bills into law, Michigan, who had the sixth highest rate of probation supervision in the US, is on pace to decrease its overall caseloads by 8.4%.Meek Mill.
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