An inmate's death at Salinas Valley State Prison is being investigated as a homicide, and the prime suspect is his cellmate.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Friday a bill that authorizes the state of Michigan to transfer the Detroit Detention ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections said a 73-year-old state prison offender has died after falling ill Saturday.

A Cassopolis man is going back to prison after being sentenced for a probation violation Friday in Cass County Circuit Court.

Meshach J. Williams, 31, of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced to 2-4 years in the Nebraska Department of Corrections by District Court Judge Michael Piccolo.

Dragging two Michigan State Police troopers from his car during a traffic stop and hiding an illicit gun in a toilet has cost a Saginaw man his next few years in prison. Saginaw County Circuit Judge ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Corrections has released new data this week showing sharp declines in our state’s prison population. The department says helping people ...

Perhaps most notably, Michigan’s recidivism rate — the share of people who return to prison within three years of release — has dropped to 22.7%, the second-lowest in state history.

More than 500 incarcerated women at Michigan’s only women’s prison are suing the state for $500 million, alleging they were illegally recorded during strip searches and other moments when they ...

At least three state corrections officers have been injured in an incident described as "chaos" at Collins Correctional Facility on Wednesday, according to state lawmakers who are monitoring the ...

MICHIGAN CITY — Gov. Eric Holcomb wants the people of Michigan City, and their elected representatives, to decide how to repurpose the Indiana State Prison property once the Department of ...