A man was sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his 8-year-old sister in Oakland County, Michigan. Gyasi Stribling was sentenced Tuesday in Oakland ...

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 ...

A $500 million lawsuit filed Monday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court is taking aim at the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging that prison officials subjected hundreds of incarcerated ...

Lansing — Women inside a Michigan prison were subjected to trauma and "institutional betrayal" by a state policy that allowed them to be recorded by guards' body cameras while they underwent strip ...

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 ...

State Rep. Ann Bollin is sounding the alarm over recent audits that exposed major security failures at three of Michigan's correctional facilities in Ionia and Baraga. According to Bollin's office ...

New state reports out Thursday list concerns with three of Michigan’s prisons. The Michigan Office of Auditor General reported issues at the Richard A. Handlon, Ionia, and Baraga correctional ...

Still, Michigan Corrections Organization union President ... found through the audits that nearly half the cell searches at Baraga Correctional Facility were conducted in less than a minute.

Reports from three different prisons located in Ionia County in mid-Michigan and Baraga County in the Upper Peninsula documented gaps in required checks of tools, arsenals, prisoner cells ...