Corrections Department

A plan to allow Michigan corrections officers access to the State Police Retirement System passed the Michigan Senate Wednesday

A declining number of working corrections officers in Michigan prisons has the officer union complaining of an exhausted workforce and sometimes dangerous working conditions

Michigan prisons have hundreds of staff shortages. A bill adopted Tuesday by the state House could help address the problem.

The state department of corrections estimates it has about 770 unfilled jobs.

Starting Monday, Michigan National Guard medical personnel will visit the six prisons in the Upper Peninsula to help the Michigan Department of…

Six years ago, the superintendent of a small and struggling school district in Gratiot County wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to Governor Rick Snyder…

Governor Snyder has signed into law legislation compensating people who’ve been wrongfully imprisoned.Under the “Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act,”…

What’s being called a major battle over the state’s prison budget is taking shape in Lansing. To save money, John Proos, the chair of the relevant state…

Michigan improperly spent $1.7 million on health care for former inmates. That’s according to a new audit that tracked payments between October 2011 and…

A program requiring some Michigan sex offenders to wear electronic monitors for the rest of their lives might face a legal challenge.The U.S. Supreme…