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Michigan’s attorney general is lashing out at a plan recently approved by the Michigan House to let nonviolent offenders out of prison when they’re first eligible to be paroled.
Bill Schuette says it should be up to the parole board to decide when someone should be released from prison.
Under the legislation a person could be released from prison after serving their minimum sentence, unless there was a good reason to keep them behind bars.
Schuette says 70 percent of the criminals housed in prisons across the state committed violent crimes and fears they could be released early too.
The legislation is being billed as a cost savings to the state but Schuette doesn’t think it will save the state much.
He would rather privatize more prison services to reduce the Department of Corrections budget.
