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Mackinac Center Executive Vice President Michael J. Reitz told MLive that a legislative package on criminal sentencing reform is a good stop forward, including a proposal that would create a Justice Policy Commission to review sentencing guidelines.
“It is a valuable component of the proposals,” Reitz said. “These issues tend to fade to the background if there isn’t someone, or a group or entity, that’s continually looking at it.”
The recommendation came out of the Michigan Law Revision Commission’s meeting earlier this week, which Reitz attended. The MLRC also discussed modernizing the state’s Open Meetings Act.
Reitz recently co-authored a study with the Manhattan Institute on Michigan’s criminal code.
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