Tag Archives: Mark Ciavarella

Veronique Liem on the 22nd Circuit Court, family law, and why she wants to be a judge

By Mark | March 5, 2014

I had the occasion last night to exchange several emails with judicial candidate Veronique Liem. What follows is our conversation. My hope is that it’s useful to those of you out there, like me, who have only a cursory understanding of the 22nd Circuit Court and how it operates. It’s not exhaustive by any means, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Other | Also tagged custody, divorce, Don Shelton, family law, judges, judiciary, juvenile offenders, kids for cash, mediation, Michael Conahan, native american, peacemaking court, restorative justice, Veronique Liem, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Washtenaw County Unified Trial Court | 5 Comments

For-profit prisons… What could possibly go wrong?

By Mark | May 27, 2012

As it’s been a while since we’ve had a post here about the prison industrial complex, I thought that I’d pass along this clip from Charles Blow’s recent piece in the New York Times. “Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baldwin, Charles Blow, Corrections Corporation of America, G4S, GEO Group, Group 4 Falck, honey holes, House Bill 5174, Joe Haveman, John Proos, Louisiana, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Michigan Department of Corrections, Michigan House of Representatives, Natalie Holbrook, North Lake Correctional Facility, North Lake Facility for Youth, overincarceration, Pennsylvania, prison, prison industrial complex, prison industry, prison reform, prison sentences, prisoner rights, private prisons, privatization, Rick Snyder, security state, the cost of incarceration, unions, Wackenhut Corrections Corp, Wal-Mart, Wilkes-Barre | 18 Comments

State Senator Rebekah Warren to propose constitutional ban on for-profit schools in Michigan

By Mark | November 28, 2011

Occasionally, I scoop AnnArbor.com, like yesterday, with my story about the break-in at Beezy’s. But, more often than not, they scoop me. This, I suppose, is to be expected, as, from what I’m told, they employ several people who work all day, and not just at night, after they’ve put their daughters to bed. At […]