A federal lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging toxic mold at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility made inmates ill, may move forward after a judge rejected the ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WNEM) – The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is celebrating the graduation of over 250 students that took part in higher education prison programs. MDOC said the completion of a ...

For more than a decade, Krystal Clark has warned that mold inside Michigan’s only women’s prison is killing her.Now, she is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Incarcerated Michiganders will no longer have access to original copies of confidential and legal mail to combat drug trafficking, the Michigan Department of Corrections ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) has reported the lowest rate of reoffense – or recidivism – on state record. The rate MDOC reported to the state legislature was ...

A new policy went into effect this week at Michigan’s state correctional facilities, with the goal of preventing inmates from ...

Michigan is tightening its mail policy after finding synthetic drugs embedded in paper sent under the guise of legal or confidential mail. The department says the updated approach creates another ...

Criminals have been spraying synthetic drugs like marijuana on paper that appears to be from a lawyer. Starting next year, ...

For nearly three years, lawmakers needed to give a 72-hour advance notice if they wanted to inspect a correctional facility, reducing access to and oversight of the state’s prisons. That delay has ...

The 12 women who earned bachelor’s degrees at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in September participated in the largest graduation so far by the Michigan Department of Corrections.

The funds held more than $19 million at the end of 2024 but receive no scrutiny from lawmakers. Some Michigan inmates say that despite large balances in the funds intended to help them, they can't ...