prisons

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.

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If the “truth-in-sentencing” law is repealed, prisoners could earn “good time” credits that could shorten their time in prison.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