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The Michigan Department of Corrections has announced a $10,000-a-year hike in starting pay at five Upper Peninsula prisons. U.P. prisons house about a fourth of the state’s inmates but record nearly three-fourths of assaults on prison staff.

Prison workers in the Michigan Department of Corrections have been upset about working conditions — including thin staffing, safety concerns and mandatory overtime — for a while now. They're about to get a raise. Will it assuage any concern?

Understaffing. Mandatory overtime. Physical danger. Michigan's prison workers face serious obstacles and the issue is especially acute in the Upper Peninsula. A special report from the Northern Michigan Journalism Collaborative.

Michigan’s neighbor Wisconsin is often cited as an example of how to fix prison staffing challenges. Outrage over staffing levels led to efforts to recruit more staff and raise pay.

All of Michigan's prisons have seen vacancies but in no part of the state is it worse than the Upper Peninsula, with high assaults, open positions and thinning ranks.

Today on Stateside , the Michigan Department of Corrections has hired a mental health specialist to run an employee mental wellness program in response...