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Lawmakers heard scathing testimony about mold and other persistent issues alleged to have jeopardized the health and wellbeing of people incarcerated at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.

Disability Rights Michigan, an advocacy organization, found that women incarcerated in Michigan who required an attendant to help push their wheelchairs missed, on average, about half of their meals and many missed doses for prescription medication for seizures, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

MDOC says drugs are still coming in through mail items disguised as confidential legal material. So starting January 5, those documents will be given to inmates as photocopies.

A Michigan mother refuses to let her son wait decades for the parole-mandated classes he needs, turning to outside education programs like the nonprofit Level when the prison system offers none.

Inmates in Michigan’s only prison for women are suing the state Department of Corrections for alleged forced labor and gender discrimination.The lawsuit claims the plaintiffs at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility were forced to work as unpaid porters, cleaning common areas like showers and hallways, despite having chronic medical conditions. It’s asking the Michigan Court of Claims to certify its class action status.

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.