The department's own numbers show it has fewer wheelchairs than the number of inmates with prescriptions for them, says ...

Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is roughly three times the national average, and the state leads in the ...

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.

Tyler Venema was found unresponsive in his cell in 2017 after officers gave the mentally ill inmate a plastic bag. In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the warden can be sued ...

The funds held more than $19 million at the end of 2024 but receive no scrutiny from lawmakers. Some Michigan inmates say that despite large balances in the funds intended to help them, they can't ...

BALDWIN, MI – A private prison group is fighting its tax bill on an idled northern Michigan prison that’s now poised to become one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. GEO ...

A 47-year-old prison inmate has taken a rare step in court and is not contesting the first-degree-murder charge against him for killing a fellow prisoner at the Macomb Correctional Facility. Michael ...