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Despite a recent meeting in Lansing between Escanaba city leaders and the Michigan Department of Corrections there is still no resolution to what city leaders say is MDOC dumping prisoners, who aren’t from the area, into their community.
Escanaba City Manager Jim O’Toole says the placement of parolees in communities that they have no ties to should concern communities across Michigan.
He says the explanation that recent parolees housed in Escanaba were only temporary is not an acceptable answer.
There have been several arrests in Escanaba of those on parole or probation that are not from the area, and O’Toole says it’s a problem that could accelerate if a presumptive parole bill passes the state legislature.
It would allow inmates to be released based on their minimum sentence.
The bill has passed the state House and is currently in the Senate.
