New Michigan bills seek to reform 'enhanced' sentencing and make punishment fit the crime

A bipartisan group of Michigan legislators and criminal justice reform advocates announced on Sept. 18 that they will introduce legislation this week to reform a 2012 mandatory minimum sentencing law they say is ineffective, costly, and “scoops up” defendants who were never meant to be subject to the law’s enhanced sentences in the first place.

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Democratic state Sen. Jeff Irwin, one of the lawmakers behind the reform, told Daily Kos that the new legislation is an attempt to “dial back Michigan’s ‘lock them up and throw away the key’ policies.”