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MDOC owes us answers about Michigan prison deaths | Opinion

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By Margo Schlanger, Harold Gurewitz, Natalie Holbrook-Combs, Tabitha Harris, Michael Puckett, Mira Edmonds, Patricia Maceroni, Patricia L. Selby
| Livingston Daily Press & Argus Verified
The Michigan Department of Corrections has confirmed at least eight deaths of prisoners in two months, from mid-March to mid-May. Four of these are being investigated as homicides — a startlingly high number. The system had just one homicide in all of 2025. What we know: May 17: Rebecca Fackler, diabetic and recently post-surgical, died May 17, 2026; advocates report she was denied access to the health care unit the day she died. Gov.
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What’s Behind DHS’s Abuses

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By Margo Schlanger
| Democracy Journal Verified
The Trump Administration has fulfilled Project 2025’s promise to shut down the Department of Homeland Security’s internal oversight offices, including its civil rights office. The entire staff of those offices has received “reduction in force” (RIF) notices announcing that their employment will be terminated in the next couple of months. Why? Department leadership is clear: because the offices stood in the way of the department’s roughshod disregard for immigrant rights.
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Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act

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By Andrea Fenster, Margo Schlanger
| Prison Policy Initiative
by Andrea Fenster & Margo Schlanger April 26, 2021 Twenty-five years ago today, in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. The “PLRA,” as it is often called, makes it much harder for incarcerated people to file and win federal civil rights lawsuits.
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