it is true that this particular conglomeration of prison reforms has kept people behind bars for longer and longer, and that Truth In Sentencing in particular needs to be repealed, like, yesterday. Enthusiasm for the bill from outside organizers and prisoners alike shouldn't be diminished, but as we know, most prison reforms can and do create and maintain arbitrary and repressive distinctions between prisoners who "deserve" to be release and those who don't (the distinction between "non-violent" and "violent" offenders; "innocent/wrongfully convicted" versus, lol, not that; "good" and "bad" immigrants) -- and we know that Good Time could and would be barred for people, like our comrade Jonathan Summers, who are classified as "Security Threat Group" or STG.

read about Jonathan's skepticism about the Good Time Bill and his analysis of STG here: https://michiganabolition.org/2023/08/18/new-zine-from-inside-the-mdoc-stg-good-time-and-the-malicious-demons-of-coercion-by-jonathan-summers/

It is significant that the restoration of Good Time, on its own, has both been blocked by MI AG Dana Nessel, but that doesn't make the bill a panacea to the litany of problems that are present in the Nation article (let alone the ones that didn't make it in...)

#Michigan #TruthInSentencing #GoodTimeBill #STG #AbolitionNOW