By JEN IFER VAN CORE c. C IDY LAKE T chnical School, a 360-bed facility, is th state' only boot camp and is lo­ cated in Washtenaw County northw t of Chelsea It costs an average of 22,000 to house a convict in prison, while it costs about 15,000 for someone to go through the boot camp system, said Warren Williams, a pok man for the Department of Cor- C UB Mason County near Ludington, was the first boot camp open and th first cl ed in March of 1992. Camp Manistique, in School­ craft County was closed in June. The two were converted to regu­ lar prison use when it became more effective to ha th entire boot camp operation at the newer, more centralized Cassidy Lake location, Curtis said. While boot camp programs are not for every offender, they I .. Stat £I ,\'eu's you n T E OGR work, ho v r, if partieipan are given proper follow-up guid­ ance, said Michigan State U ni­ versity criminal ju tice Professor Bob Trojanowicz. "Boot camps can be effective if support rvi , like help with Repre entative David Point (D-Highland Park) wa joined by his pecial gue t (I-r), Dr. Deborah McGriff, Detroit Public School Superintendent; Dr. Eugene Cain, Highland Park Superintendent of Schools; and Dr. John Radwanski, Superintendent of Hamtr�m�k Scho�1 for Governor Engler's addre before the joint es ion on October 5. Thl I the fir t opportunity the three uperintendents who repre ent the diverse Sixth District have come together. • lay 00 Representative Davi� S. Points (D-Highland Park) said he and his Democratic colleagues. will oppose any reform proposal by Governor Engler that does not fully fund education in Michigan and replace the revenue lost with the elimination of property taxes as the primary source of funding . for public education. . In addition, Rep. Points said, House Democrats said they sup­ port tablishing higher tand­ ards for a core curriculum through a formal council of ex­ perts, identifying n .. employ­ ability skills, devising a new means of ing performance of students and providing new ac­ creditation standards for all schools as ntial components for public education in Michigan. Rep. Points lso accused th governor of playing a she.ll �me with his proposal to eliminate revenue sharing, which will m n that local goy rnments �ill forced to rai tax ·to �roVld t?e me servi , including pohce and fire pro ion, ha h y pro- vid today. a 0 indi- ( do OmBell(PTegnantorBrea8Ue�) By JENNIFER VAN DOREN c. ft.' New. Service LAN G - With prisons bulging, courts overflowing with and s suffocating with crime, th problem of soaring corrections are cl r. The solutions, however, are not as easily en. One uch option that h n in use in th ta sin 1986 is electronic monitoring-te h­ ering - of paroled convicts in efforts to keep clo e tabs on their actions and to enforce cur­ fews. Michigan has the largest tethering pro� in the nation, said Department of Corrections Director Kenneth McGinni , who added that tethering is an excellent option, but shouldn't be overused. Roughly 2,800 people are currently on tether programs, said Dick Irrer, the new-program manager at th Michigan Department of Cor­ rections. To date more than 10,000 have gone through the program, which usually lasts about four months. "WE'RE LOOKING for a better way to do things - a ch per way to have more control over a select group of offenders," Irrersaid. "Not everyone needs to be in a maximum-security prison. It doesn't make sense to keep someone locked up for $22,000 year who is a minor offender." expected school reforms and how each district is affected. their d ire to push for th strength ning of local d ision­ making and parental account­ ability as of Public Act 25, a hool reform act passed in 1990. their istance to choice op- tions and charter hools as "gim­ micky" po that have no evidence of improving student performan , only pn:>viding . . lective nefi to ehte partici- pan . • th ir p f for m- pletely legislativ financial �Iu­ tion with ible voter op IOns, to "extortion" styl which fo YO rs to In- th ir sch payers. in orm I . u by h c ter to hom devise connected to th Irrer said. At a random time intervals, t vi