There are 5,100 corrections officers that oversee roughly 33,000 inmates across 26 Michigan prisons. Subscribe to our News 10 newsletter and YouTube page to receive the latest local news and weather.

Michigan’s Prison Crisis The state, often considered a bastion of progressive policies, has some of the worst carceral instincts and politics. Jacqueline Williams ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said the prison employees’ actions, including the warden, led to Lancaster’s death in 2019. For days, a judge listened to testimony about what happened ...

In the last fiscal year, 1,744 employees left the Michigan Department of Corrections, a turnover rate of 15.6%. Of those, 681 were corrections officers, and 106 had fewer than five years' experience.

All four, who are free on bond, are suspended from their jobs without pay, Michigan Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jenni Riehle said. The prisoner they allegedly assaulted on July 7, 2024 ...

Michigan already allows people with felony convictions to regain their voting rights once they're out of prison, but now the state will go one step further and expand automatic registration to ...