UPDATED ARTICLES on Troubles in Michigan Prisons
Budget Cuts Felt in Stomachs of MDOC Prisoners, Hundreds Mass in Protest on Prison Yard
The protest was organized privately and instead of going to chow the inmates agreed to meet up on the yard. The excitement accompanying the awareness of being involved in a cause larger than individual, made many forget that they had not eaten.
Michigan is one of the state’s suffering in the nationwide recession and with the 2011 Corrections budget slashed 42 million is most disturbing to inmates with each facility having to make cuts of 3.8% without being specific.
To be sure, some prisoners admitted that this protest may not have had the big impact desired, but at least it made most of them feel better, empowered. “I’ve been in the joint thirteen years, and being out here with all these folks made me feel that I was attending a protest rally in Washington, DC,” remarked by an excited protester we will appropriately only identify as “Eastside.”
Dennis Boatwirght 206715
Mid-Michigan Correctional Facility
8201 N. Croswell Rd
St. Louis, MI 48880
Prisonworld 2008-2011
