Starting this fall, two dozen Macomb Correctional Facility inmates will be eligible to earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology ...

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

The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

Justin Jack Miller, 30, of Escanaba, Michigan, in February admitted he coerced a 10-year-old girl into sending him sexually explicit material by pretending to be a 14-year-old boy on Instagram ...

Michigan state park staff noticed that pay pipes at remote campground sites in Luce County came up "way short on campsite ...

The GEO Group-run detention center has sparked civil rights concerns in a historically Black community just a few miles away.

As Illinois prisons face continued risk of substance exposure and staff assaults, State Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, is once again calling for change in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Women incarcerated at the Shakopee Correctional Facility are dealing with basic health products rationing, according to the Incarcerated Workers Organization Committee. Tampons and pads are among ...

A legal dispute over whether transgender people incarcerated in Indiana are entitled to receive gender-affirming surgery has ...

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

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

State Rep. Paul Takac, D-College Township, encourages officials to keep Rockview state prison open during the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ public hearing on the proposed closure of ...