The department administers the state’s prison system, overseeing 26 prisons throughout the state with a prisoner population ...

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Since March 27, inmates from four different prisons have died almost every week while state police try to understand why it ...

For decades, the corrections department has provided comprehensive classes to help prisoners prepare to reenter communities.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are more than 5,000 correctional officers and almost 1,000 vacancies across the Michigan Department of Corrections, ...

Michigan State Police have opened a homicide investigation following the death of a Macomb County inmate.

It's been nearly a month since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer praised first responders during her State of the State address, but at least one Michigan corrections officer says prison staff were left out ...

A Michigan Department of Corrections officer has been charged in connection with allegedly smuggling drugs into a Jackson County state prison. On July 11, officials allegedly found Joshua Evans in the ...

Prisoner Colton Mitchell died on April 15 after an altercation in his assigned cell.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – A former Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility corrections officer accused of engaging in sexual ...