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Civil rights and women's rights groups contend Michelle West's two life terms were unnecessarily harsh.

In 2002, Marvin Gabrion was convicted of kidnapping and murdering 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman in 1997. Her body was found in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, weighed down by cinder blocks in Oxford Lake. An autopsy determined Timmerman had died by drowning.

Today on Stateside, Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who served as co-chair of the…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has commuted the sentences of four people serving extremely long sentences for non-violent crimes, including drug possession and…

President Obama commuted DeMarlon Thomas’ prison sentence last year.Last night, he was murdered in Saginaw.DeMarlon Thomas was allegedly connected to…

A Michigan man is among 46 federal prison inmates who had their prison sentences commuted by President Obama today.Patrick Roberts was sentenced to life…