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

Five Republican lawmakers are echoing cries from a union for corrections officers for state leadership to take action to address an understaffing problem in state prisons that they say is exhausting and demoralizing officers.

A new investigation by the Detroit Free Press suggest corrections officers could be a main source of drugs in state prisons. Also, we talked to the minds behind the Lansing Facts Twitter account. Plus, Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson on commemorating a dark day in Indigenous history.

An inmate can’t automatically be designated a security risk for possessing an illegal mobile phone. That ruling was released Friday by the Michigan Supreme Court.

A new state Department of Corrections directive outlines the rights of pregnant prison inmates to medical resources and support.

Thousands of Michigan prison inmates have been receiving federal stimulus payments during the pandemic.The fear is that inmates have been using the money…

Lorenzo Garrett felt abandoned when he was in prison. “No one really cares about you,” he said. In prison, you get used to a limited routine, he said, and…

Idalis Pagan didn’t think it would be so long before she got to see her uncles. But if she can travel to the prison, like she plans to in the next month,…

For the first time in more than a year, visitors will be allowed at Michigan prisons.Since the pandemic began last March, more than 25,000 inmates have…

A transgender female prisoner has sued the Michigan Department of Corrections in federal court for its failure to protect her at the all-male G. Robert…