state prisons

On today’s episode, a Kent County resident was released from prison — after serving more than 38 years — following a Michigan Supreme Court decision to ban automatic life sentences for 18-year-olds. Next, how an Indian Tribe of Michigan has developed a new library book classification system for Native topics. Additionally, a conversation with podcast host, Courtney Anderson, about her path to sobriety and being listed as the Best Social Media Influencer in Best of Detroit 2024.

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.

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.

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

The state’s prisons have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 50% of Michigan’s prison inmates have been infected by the virus.As inmate Debra…

Five Michigan inmates died this past weekend of COVID-19, bringing the total number of inmate deaths statewide to 94. 42% of state prisoners have now been…

There's a big outbreak of COVID-19 at the Marquette Branch Prison in the Upper Peninsula.Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz says it…

The coronavirus is rapidly spreading in some Michigan prisons, especially Lakeland Correctional Facility, Parnell Correctional Facility, Cotton…