I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Curt Guyette at the Detroit Metro Times points out a disturbing item he gleaned from a current Mother Jones story on the American prison system, which now holds one in four of the world’s prisoners, and an increasing proportion of them are women.
Nationwide about 5 percent of the women who enter prison are pregnant, and many of them are forced to give birth while shackled to their beds.
Here are some of their stories.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has called the practice a possible health risk and “demeaning and unnecessary” and is lobbying for a federal bill to end the use of shackles on birthing inmates.
Currently only two states — California and Illinois — ban the practice.
This got me wondering how the Michigan prison system handles pregnant inmates.
I’ve got a call in to the state Department of Corrections, and will let you know what I find out.
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