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Michigan’s Civil Rights Act Applies to Pretrial Detainees

In reversing a grant of summary judgment to jail officials, Michigan’s Court of Appeals held that the Michigan Civil Rights Act (CRA) does not exclude all people detained in a correctional facility. Rather, it only excludes those who are “serving a sentence of imprisonment.”

Tara K. Hamed was appealing the ...

 

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