Criminals have been spraying synthetic drugs like marijuana on paper that appears to be from a lawyer. Starting next year, ...

Michigan’s prison population is getting older — and staying longer — with inmates 65 and older now making up a growing share ...

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 ...

Michigan is a national leader in education programs for the incarcerated. Commercial truck driving, cosmetology, manufacturing and business programs are popular with inmates, with more offerings on ...

Humanity for Prisoners, a Spring Lake-based prisoner advocacy agency, has announced formal opposition to a new mail policy in Michigan prisons.

There are more than 2,000 state prison inmates 65 years or older. Officials say the aging population requires specialized services, equipment and costs.

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is implementing a new rule for mail sent to inmates to prevent contraband from entering the prisons. The new policy requires that all confidential and ...

Lansing — Audit reports released Thursday raised concerns about the safety of Michigan's prisons, finding corrections officers often failed to properly search vehicles and prisoners' cells and ...

A bobcat was seen hanging out on a fence outside a Michigan prison on Tuesday. The sighting was at the Chippewa Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula. Bobcat populations have rebounded in ...

LANSING — Four Michigan corrections officers are criminally charged with beating a prisoner at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility near Ionia, leaving the inmate with a broken back, a broken hand, and ...

Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, a native of Bulgaria, had been detained at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, a prison for inmates held by ICE.