Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...

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

The Ionia County prosecutor requested the misdemeanor dismissals after Judge Raymond Voet dismissed felony charges, following ...

Grant Hardin, whose notoriety led to the TV documentary "Devil in the Ozarks," escaped May 25 from prison where he was ...

Guards and medical staff have started training at the private prison that is about to reopen to house some of the growing ...

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 ...

Michigan’s prison population has fallen to its lowest level in more than three decades, and state officials say the decline is no accident. The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC ...

Lansing — Michigan Department of Corrections officials released data Tuesday showing sharp declines in the state's prison population and recidivism rate from 2007-24, a period when statewide ...

LANSING — A Senate panel on April 24 recommended spending $15 million to improve the safety of railings at Michigan prisons, following a series of Free Press articles about five fatal plunges at ...

LANSING — Four Michigan corrections officers are criminally charged with beating a prisoner at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility near Ionia, leaving the inmate with a broken back, a broken ...

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 ...

The Michigan prison system doesn’t plan to intervene on behalf of a “sexual predator” and double murderer set to be executed by Alabama next week. Demetrius Terrence Frazier is to be put to ...