The bill sponsor hopes the prison can be retooled to provide healthcare and help solve the state's psychiatric bed shortage.

The former Standish Maximum Security Prison could be sold after the Michigan House approved a measure allowing the state to dispose of it.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Corrections has released new data this week showing sharp declines in our state’s prison population. The department says helping people ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Malijah Gee was first incarcerated in a Michigan prison when he was about 17 years old. "I came here as a youth, so I was never able to vote," Gee said. After spending 36 ...

Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is roughly three times the national average, and the state leads in the ...