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

The union representing corrections officers in Michigan is holding pickets outside some of the state’s prisons. The union says the prisons are…

A note of warning: there is some brief graphic language in the interview. Listener discretion is advised. In the past two years, the Cotton Correctional…

On September 10, there was an uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula.According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, it’s…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Snyder administration says an official overseeing Michigan's prison food contract with Aramark Correctional Services has left…

The company behind Michigan’s troubled prison food service is keeping its contract. But it’s also paying a price.Aramark’s problems have ranged from…

The Michigan Department of Corrections has released a report on last month’s escape from a state prison in Ionia. The report puts much of the blame on two…

State prison guards are upset over plans to end regular perimeter patrols outside 27 of Michigan’s 31 state prisons. Guards protested outside the…

The state corrections department plans to test the use of tasers in four state prisons. The pilot program is intended to see if the electro-shock devices…

Next week, Governor Rick Snyder will deliver a budget plan that his own Lt. Governor has described as an ‘atomic bomb’ of spending cuts. Michigan’s…