Michigan prisons

Wellpath, the Michigan Department of Corrections' former provider of health care for inmates of state prisons, has not paid its subcontractors nearly $35 million dollars.

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.

Today, how millions in emergency funding intended for Michigan restaurants were misspent during the pandemic. Also, a journey of mourning that brought West Michigan poet Marcel Price to a new creative place. Plus, advocate Dee Dee Taylor talks about helping Michiganders transition out of incarceration, through the lens of her own father’s experience.

A Michigan Department of Corrections program starting this summer allows new mothers being held in state prisons to pump and send home breast milk to feed their newborns.

Details about the aftermath in Southwest Michigan. At least 11 tornadoes touched down in the region last night. Then, the story of an acclaimed culinary program changes lives from within the walls of Michigan’s Lakeland Correctional Facility. Plus, the young designers bringing fresh ideas to the fashion industry at the College for Creative Studies.

The Michigan Department of Corrections said Tuesday that it achieved the second-lowest recidivism rate since it started tracking that data.

Genesse and St. Clair County have been accused in lawsuits of ending family visitation to prisons as a part of a “quid pro quo kickback scheme.”

Just how successful is Michigan pothole damage repair fund? Then bringing your native homeland to your Michigan garden. And how prison art gives identity to inmates usually labeled by numbers.

Janie Paul's new book, "Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance," documents the stories and work of artists who are and have been through Michigan's prison system.