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Michigan Presumptive Parole

Parole-at-eligibility reforms hit record-low recidivism.

Pretrial & Criminal JusticeGovernor / ExecutiveLiberty checkEvidence favors the policy

B · 18/24

1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)

Presume parole at first eligibility absent specific risk.

2 · The realist counter-case

Critics feared public-safety costs.

3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats

Prison population at a 17-year low; recidivism ~21% record low; technical revocations at ~40-year low.

4 · Liberty check

Expands liberty for those who have served and aged out.

5 · The real tradeoff

Favorable; sustained over years.

Allies & Playbook

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