NOTE: $2.4M grant will provide pre-release job training to incarcerated Michigan veterans!
A new $2.4 million federal grant will create an initiative to provide pre-release education, employ-
ment help and career guidance to incarcerated veterans at seven correctional facilities in MI. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the MI Dept. of Labor. It will fund the new Michigan Incarcerated Veterans’
In-Reach Program (MIVIP). “The Michigan Incarcerated Veterans’ In-Reach Program builds on our ongoing efforts to support our veterans with opportunities to succeed,” said Whitmer. “The MIVIP program offers incarcerated veterans with job training so they can reenter society with a stable
career, and it helps small businesses across Michigan meet their talent needs.”
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MIVIP will be led by LEO’s Veterans’ Employment Services team in partnership with the Michigan Department of Corrections and the Michigan Works! network. In addition to the in-reach employ- ment services, veterans will receive post-release wrap-around services to help ensure each participant’s success and reduce recidivism. MIVIP services will be provided to veterans at the following correctional facilities: Carson City, Cooper Street (Jackson), G. Robert Cotton (Jackson), Women’s Huron Valley (Pittsfield Township), Parnall (Jackson), Saginaw and St. Louis.
For more information about LEO’s Veterans’ Employment Services, visit Michigan.gov/VES.
PRISONER ADVOCACY
The AFSC Michigan Criminal Justice Program
124 Pearl Suite 607
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Phone: 734-761-8283 Prisoner number: 734-761-9796
Our office works hard to advocate for the rights of prisoners, and we are sorry if your loved one’s experiences in prison have been harmful or unfair. However, due to the large number of inquiries
we receive and the vast differences in criminal justice systems from state to state, we are only able
to work with people who are currently incarcerated in one of Michigan’s state prisons (this does not include the federal prison in Milan or the private prison in Baldwin).
MICHIGAN-CURE (MI-CURE)
P.O. Box 2736
Kalamazoo, MI 49003-2736
Phone: 269-383-0028
National Clearing House for the Defense of Battered Women
990 Spring Garden Suite 703
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Phone: 215-763-1144 / 800-903-0111 x 3 (toll free)
(We accept collect calls from incarcerated victims of battering) We accept collect calls from incar-
cer-ated victims of battering at 215-763-1144
The mission of the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women is to secure justice for victims of battering, charged with crimes related to their battering and prevent further victimi- zation of such people who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated.
Lakeshore Legal Aid
Counsel & Advocacy Law Line
16250 Northland Dr. Suite 363
Southfield, MI 48075
Phone: 248-443-8068 New Client Intake: 888-783-8190
Lakeshore Legal Aid is a not-for-profit law firm providing a range of free civil legal services to
people who are low-income, seniors, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in
our communities.
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Covers a WIDE variety of legal matters!
- Setting Aside an Adult Criminal Conviction
- Setting Aside a Juvenile Adjudication
- Drivers License Restoration
Now serving residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Lakeshore Legal Aid has 14 locations across Southeast Michigan.
RESOURCES FOR BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRISONERS
Braille and Talking Book Library
Phone: 800-992-9012
We provide library service for individuals unable to use standard print materials. If standard print has become difficult for you, a friend, or a family member, please fill out a certified application or
call the number above for more information.
- BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download)
Other Materials:
- Michigan's Locally Recorded Digital Talking Books
- MDOC Inmate Talking Book Service
- Digital Machines and Equipment
- Described Video Collection
- Magazine Collection DOC icon
More than 70 magazines are available for no charge on digital cartridge or in Braille.
PRISON MINISTRY GROUPS FOR THOSE INCARCERATED AND PAROLEES
Wayne County Jail Outreach Ministry (WCJOM)
8642 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-335-3261 #3066 to schedule an appointment
The Wayne County Jail Outreach Ministry serves individuals affected by crime, offenders, and
their families. Further, WCJOM provides education, quality care, advocacy, and serves individual spiritual needs, emotional well-being and human dignity.
PURE HEART FOUNDATION
13500 E. McNichols
Detroit, MI 48205
Phone: 586-690-1431
Pure Heart Foundation mission is to embrace children of incarcerated parents and empower
them to break the cycle of generational involvement in the criminal justice system. Our goal is
to dismantle the school to prison pipeline system and create a cycle that will break it. Instead
of systemically estimating how many youth will end up incarcerated because of their parent's incarceration, we want to systemically estimate how many will NOT go to prison but yet attend college because of the resources/ support provided by Pure Heart.
Prison Fellowship
44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA 20176
Phone: 800-206-9764
Prison Fellowship® is the nation's largest nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and
their families, and a leading advocate for justice reform. We seek to share the real, living hope
of the Gospel with people. Offers a wide variety of programs!
Crossroads Bible Institute
P.O. Box 900
Grand Rapids, MI 49509-0900
Phone: 800-668-2450
At Crossroads Prison Ministries, we connect prisoners with volunteer mentors on the outside.
Unlikely friendships are formed, and the lives of both prisoners and mentors are changed as
they exchange letters, study God’s Word and apply biblical truths to their lives.
Broken Yoke Ministries Inc.
PO Box 5824
De Pere, WI 54115-5824
Phone: 262-751-1128
For those with same-sex attraction and CSC charges or convictions. Bob Van Domelen, has served
as ministry director since 1989 and currently focuses on jail and prison ministry with an emphasis
on those with sex-related offenses. In addition to writing and publishing Into the Light, a support
newsletter published bi-monthly, he has been involved at many conferences as a speaker on the
issue of ministry to those seen as the modern day leper.
Lifeline Prison Ministries
P.O. Box 252763
West Bloomfield, MI 48325
Phone: 248-250-4043
Largest prison ministry in the State of Michigan serving over 4500 inmates and their families.
Over 1,078 volunteers state-wide offering 11 programs!
ARM Prison Outreach (American Rehabilitation Ministries)
PO Box 1490
Joplin, MO 64802-1490
Physical Location:
3605 N. Main
Joplin, MO 64801
Phone: 417-781-9100
American Rehabilitation Ministries primary mission is to bring the good news of salvation to
those in prison. ARM began ministering to prisoners in the United States in 1973 when there
were only 234,000 people in the nation’s prison population, where it had consistently hovered
since the 1940s. Today, ARM ministers domestically to more than 1.2 million people who are incarcerated in America’s 1,500 state and federal prisons, and another half-million inmates
occupying the nation’s 3,200 jails.
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Beginning in 2001, ARM expanded its efforts internationally, beginning with a prison in Mexico
and subsequently expanding to Africa, India and Russia. Later, branch ministries were added in Cambodia, Thailand, South Korea, and the Philippines. Today, ARM takes the Gospel into jails
and prison cells on six continents and it has five international branch ministry locations.
SUPPORT GROUPS FOR FAMILIES OF PRISONERS
PLANNING FOR RELEASE?
Michigan State Appellate Defender Office and Criminal Defense Resource Center (SADO)
Detroit Office
645 Griswold Suite 3300
Penobscot Building
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313-256-9833
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Lansing Office
200 N. Washington Square Suite 250
Capitol National Bank Building
Lansing, MI 48913
Phone: 517-334-6069
TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES:
Millennium One Transportation
24655 Southfield Suite #211
Southfield, MI 48075
Phone: 1-855-531-7251 OR 1-248-864-8467
Website:
Personal transportation to State of Michigan correctional facilities. Group & family discounts.
Non-refundable 50% deposit required at booking.
Arielle
Phone: 1-800-469-8013
Goes to Ojibway, Newberry, and Kincheloe from Southfield, Pontiac, Flint and Bay City.
Greyhound
Phone: 1-800-292-3831
Indian Trails
Phone: 1-800-231-2222
Goes to the areas outside of S.E. Michigan. Transfer from the Greyhound system at Flint or
Lansing.
JDOT
Phone: 586-585-9991
Will go anywhere in the lower part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Pick-up in Detroit, Macomb
or Oakland County.
Marq Tran
Phone: 906-225-1112
Transportation within Marquette County. Stops one mile from Marquette Branch Prison.
Miss Van
Phone: 1-800-MISSVAN OR 1-800-647-7826
Website:
Transportation to all lower peninsula prisons and Ojibway in the Upper Peninsula. Pick-up in
the Detroit area, Oakland and Macomb counties and anywhere along their routes.
Lamaz Transportation
Phone: 313-516-9193
Will go anywhere in the Lower Peninsula. Will go to the Upper Peninsula if there is a group.
Pick-up in the Detroit area.
New Horizons
Phone: 810-265-0096
Specializes in the Thumb but will go anywhere. Pick-up is in Flint.
People's Choice
Phone: 313-653-9972
Will go anywhere in the Lower Peninsula and will go to the Upper Peninsula if there is a large
group. Pick-up is in Detroit.
Personal
Phone: 313-537-6991
Will go to any prison from the Detroit area.
Pointer
Phone: 313-434-9208
Services all prison from Detroit.
