People, not offenders.

Coverage All 83 Michigan countiesSample 142,592 individuals · 520,719 sentencesPhotos Withheld by default

§ 01DashboardThe numbers at a glance § 02LookupFind an individual record § 03ReformThe confrontational view § 04Deaths InsideDeaths, illness & the undercount § 05FlowPopulation flows & reform metrics § 06MovementsAggregate facility changes § 07Ask the DataAI over 520,719 sentences § 08SupportKeep the work going

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01Dataset totalsRecord, sentence, county, custody, and sentence-per-person totals.02Race aggregateStatewide OTIS race aggregate with the statewide Census baseline column.03Current statusCanonicalized current-status counts from the public mirror.04Age bucketsAge buckets computed from date-of-birth fields at stats build time.05Gender aggregateMale and female counts as published by the source record.06Conviction methodPlea, trial, nolo contendere, and unknown conviction-method counts.07Sentence summaryMinimum, maximum, median, and life-or-40-plus sentence summary fields.08Sentence decadeSentence-row volume grouped by sentence decade.09County aggregateTop county sentence counts with metro labels and Census baseline fields.10County race aggregateTop county race shares with county Census baseline columns.11FacilitiesCurrent-prisoner facility counts from source location fields.12OffensesTop offense labels with local category assignment.13Sentence length bucketsMinimum and maximum sentence buckets from parsed sentence rows.14Census baselinesStatewide and top-county baseline percentages used for comparison.

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People, not numbers.

People Not Numbers

An independent public-data publication built from Michigan corrections records. Every figure on this site comes from the public record; every design choice is ours.

Not an official government service or legal authority. Photos withheld by default; no dehumanizing language.

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Dashboard Lookup Reform Deaths Inside Flow Movements Ask the Data Support

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142,592 records
520,719 sentences
83 counties
~60 facilities

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