prisons

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.

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.

There were 15 assaults on staff and another 25 on prisoners at the St Louis Facility, according to the union's report.

If the “truth-in-sentencing” law is repealed, prisoners could earn “good time” credits that could shorten their time in prison.

Pregnant prison inmates will have access to a birth plan, a doula, and one non-medical support person under a new state directive.

More than a dozen people gathered in Traverse City on Saturday to organize against an immigration prison opening in northern Michigan.Non-U.S. citizens…

A former juvenile corrections facility in Baldwin could become a prison for immigrants. In a press release, State Sen. Curt VanderWall (R-Ludington) said…

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Michigan’s prisons face a crisis: The state cannot find enough corrections officers to staff them. Older officers are retiring, others are quitting, and…

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