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Deadline Detroit | Discolored water at Michigan prison stokes fears of contamination

by  Violet Ikonomova Lakeland Correctional houses many of Michigan s elderly and medically vulnerable prisoners. (Photo: Google Maps) Inmates at a southern Michigan prison fear the water they use to cook, drink and bathe may be contaminated as a result of the facility switching from its wells to a municipal supply, but corrections officials insist it’s safe. The water at Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, south of Battle Creek, has been discolored on and off for several months, inmates tell Deadline Detroit and an advocacy group. Last week, it was brown, prompting some to boil tap water or avoid drinking it altogether amid high temperatures and a lack of air conditioning at portions of the facility. Others have complained of headaches and upset stomachs. Bottled water has not been made available, prisoners say.

Stateside: Direct care worker shortage; poet Diane DeCillis; SCOTUS juvenile lifer case

Kaye LaFond / Michigan Radio As this infographic shows, only Pennsylvania ranks higher than Michigan when it comes to handing out life sentences without the possibility for parole to juveniles. The U.S. Supreme Court says states have to review these sentences for all those who were convicted and sentenced as juveniles, and that life without the possibility of parole should only be reserved for the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility. Click on the graphic to see more. © 2021 Michigan Radio

What the SCOTUS decision in juvenile lifer case means for Michigan

Stateside s conversations with Deborah LaBelle and Efren Paredes For years, states around the country had laws that made a sentence of life without the possibility of parole mandatory for children who committed serious violent offenses. In Michigan, that meant that some 360 juvenile defendants were sent to prison for life. Over the past decade, a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions found that those mandatory sentences were unconstitutional. But on April 22, the Supreme Court released a decision with conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh penning the majority opinion  that complicates those years of reform. Back in 2012, the Supreme Court said in Miller v. Alabama that children are different from adults, and sentencing them to life without parole amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. The court said that only in rare cases  when the defendant displayed “permanent incorrigibility”  could they be sentenced to life

How public health and prisons are intertwined

How public health and prisons are intertwined
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