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Michigan Department of Corrections outlines operations, staffing pressures and pay changes
Summary
The Michigan Department of Corrections told the House Judiciary Committee it operates 26 prisons, 100+ field offices and supervises roughly 70,000 people statewide, and described recruitment and retention efforts including a higher starting wage and a faster path to top pay.
Chairwoman Likert called the House Judiciary Committee to order and introduced Kyle Kaminski, who presented an overview of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ structure, budget and staffing.
Kaminski, the OS administrator and legislative liaison for the Michigan Department of Corrections, told the committee the agency’s "primary focus is public safety," and said that public safety requires both secure facilities and successful reentry programming.
The department operates 26 prisons and the Detroit Detention Center under contract with the city of Detroit, Kaminski said, and maintains "just over 32,000 individuals in our prisons currently," along with about 32,000 people on felony probation and roughly 9,000 on parole — a daily jurisdictional population of more than 70,000 Michigan residents. He described the MDOC as effectively running "26 small cities" because…
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