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Advocates push prisons to stop using visitor restrictions to punish prisoners
By Capital News ServiceBy OWEN MCCARTHYCapital News Service LANSING – Monica Jahner became “the first person in Michigan to get life without parole on a conspiracy to murder where no one died” after being wrongfully convicted in 1978 at age 22, she said. “That was back in the day when the politicians were getting tough on crime,” Jahner said. “They decided that you should do the exact same amount of time whether you committed the crime or not.” Jahner was paroled in 2007 after winning a court challenge to her sentence and served about 28 years, doing time in both the Florence Crane Women’s Correctional Facility in Coldwater and the Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti. Today, she is the manager of the Advocacy, Reentry, Resource and Outreach division of the NorthWest initiative, based in Lansing, which helps formerly incarcerated people transition to the outside world.
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‘Parental rights’ advocates pushing schools on race, gender, sexuality
By Capital News ServiceMichigan SenateSen. Jim Runestad, R-White Lake. By OWEN MCCARTHYCapital News Service LANSING – “Parental rights,” an issue that has been championed by conservative politicians in recent years, was born out of frustration over COVID-19 related mask and vaccine mandates in public schools. A Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced in Congress in 2023 and says “the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right.” One of the taglines of the parental rights group Moms for Liberty, which has 10 Michigan chapters and was founded in 2021, is “we don’t co-parent with the government.” The 2022 Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tudor Dixon — who lost to incumbent Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by over 10% of the vote — campaigned on the issue.
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Record low Great Lakes ice jump-starts Michigan’s severe weather season
By Capital News ServiceNational Weather ServiceThis is a Feb. 27 tornado in Marshall By CLARA LINCONHOLCapital News Service LANSING -- The lack of ice on the Great Lakes this winter could cause thunderstorms and tornadoes to occur earlier than usual in the region.