The Michigan Department of Corrections said its last two graduating classes of prison officers are the largest since 2015.

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 ...

Lansing — Audit reports released Thursday raised concerns about the safety of Michigan's prisons, finding corrections officers often failed to properly search vehicles and prisoners' cells and ...

The auditor general found that corrections officers in many cases appeared to falsely state that required cell searches had been completed. The Corrections Department blamed training issues and ...