Thread by @JoshuaBHoe

Okay in 2020 Michigan:

* Passed the largest expansion of expungement ever (arguably ever in the United States)
* Passed all 20 pieces of legislation from the recommendations of the Task Force on Jails and Pretrial Incarceration
* Occupational Licensing reform
* SNAP reform

There was more, but it is actually possible that MILLIONS of people will be benefited by these changes and it all happened in a state with GOP control of the legislature and a DEM Governor

EVERY legislator and our Governor deserve a lot of credit for working together #mileg

Obviously, there is still a LOT of work left to do and we are dealing with a full-on COVID crisis in our prisons and jails.

117 people have died from COVID in Michigan prisons as of last night

We need the vaccine in our prisons and commutations for people at high-risk ASAP

And it was not all sun and rainbows, at the tail end of the session the legislator passed and our Governor signed a new piece of SORA legislation that even the AG said was probably going to put Michigan right back into a court battle (that has been going for almost a decade)

But, while 2020 has been a terrible year in almost every other conceivable way....we made a LOT of progress in #cjreform in Michigan, a huge number of people's lives will be improved and nobody's life will be made worse...We will continue this fight until the job is done! #2021