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MI SB0599
MI SB0599Corrections: parole; parole eligibility for medically frail inmates; modify. Amends secs. 34 & 35 of 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.234 & 791.235).
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Introduced
10/19/2023
10/19/2023
In Committee
06/18/2024
06/18/2024
Crossed Over
06/04/2024
06/04/2024
Passed
06/26/2024
06/26/2024
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
07/30/2024
07/30/2024
Introduced Session
102nd Legislature
Bill Summary
AN ACT to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled ?An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, commutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps, to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the supervision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of certain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to provide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to provide for a lifetime electronic monitoring program; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act,? by amending sections 34 and 35 (MCL 791.234 and 791.235), section 34 as amended by 2019 PA 14 and section 35 as amended by 2019 PA 13.
AI Summary
This bill modifies the parole eligibility requirements for medically frail inmates. Key provisions include:
1. The Parole Board may grant parole to prisoners determined to be "medically frail" based on criteria such as permanent physical disabilities, terminal medical conditions, or permanent disabling mental disorders. This parole can be granted without the usual parole eligibility requirements.
2. Prosecutors or victims can object to the Parole Board's decision to grant parole to a medically frail inmate, and a judge will determine if the inmate is eligible. The decision can be appealed.
3. The bill outlines specific conditions that must be met for a medically frail inmate to be granted parole, such as electronic monitoring, placement in an appropriate medical facility, and adherence to parole terms.
4. The Department of Corrections is required to file a petition to have paroled medically frail inmates deemed "persons requiring treatment" under mental health laws, and to require mental health treatment as a condition of parole.
Overall, this bill aims to create a pathway for early parole of certain medically frail inmates while maintaining safeguards to protect public safety.
Committee Categories
Justice
Sponsors (8)
Erika Geiss (D)*,
Rosemary Bayer (D),
Stephanie Chang (D),
Jeff Irwin (D),
Ed McBroom (R),
Sylvia Santana (D),
Sue Shink (D),
Paul Wojno (D),
Last Action
Assigned Pa 0111'24 (on 07/30/2024)
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