The governor, the director of the Department of Corrections and two wardens were dismissed Monday from a 2022 COVID-19 lawsuit involving an alleged medically vulnerable inmate, court records show.
More than 6,100 of the Department of Corrections inmates who were paroled in 2020 did not reoffend and stayed out of prison, the department announced Wednesday.
Corrections Director Heidi Washington told a House subcommittee Thursday an increase in funding is needed to assure the department has sufficient health care staff in the state's prisons.
A coalition of city, county and state officials says the partnership they formed in 2021 to reduce violent crime in Detroit is working.
A federal judge on Monday consolidated two lawsuits that claim the Department of Corrections failed to properly train staff to provide medical care for a Women's Huron Valley facility scabies outbreak.
The Department of Corrections, its director and other agency defendants in a revived women's prison conditions complaint are asking for a federal judge to decide the case based on the submitted pleadings.
Governments have some ability to regulate their employees' speech, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in siding with the Michigan Department of Corrections over a corrections officer's argument he could post whatever he wanted on social media with impunity.
By the end of September, the turnover of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's departmental leadership will nearly be complete.
The director of the Department of Corrections and several other defendants in a revived challenge to allegedly poor and unsafe conditions inside the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility have asked a federal judge to end the case and it rule in their favor, court records show.
MACKINAC ISLAND – Department of Corrections Director Heidi Washington views her agency as a potential pipeline to key industries hurting for highly-skilled workers and those dedicated to bettering their lives through good-paying jobs, not just an administrator of incarcerated people.