Michigan auditors said they were able to carry a welding rod through prison metal detectors undetected at one facility.
The prisoner earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting one of the officers in a related incident at Bellamy Creek near Ionia.
The Michigan auditor general's findings come amid a chronic prison understaffing problem that corrections officers say is jeopardizing safety.
That’s Byron Osborn, president of the Michigan Corrections Organization (MCO), telling News 10 why corrections officers across the state are lining up along the picket line. The organization ...