

Using the Michigan Department of Corrections data acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request in October 2018, we will examine this section of the population in more detail. In the second blog, which took a look changing size of our prison population, we ended by mentioning that a quarter of people incarcerated are serving a minimum sentence of 20 years or greater.

The first post looked at some of the demographics of our prison population. This is the third in a series of blogs related to understanding who is incarcerated in Michigan prisons, why they are incarcerated, and for how long.
