Money from the funds is not supposed to be spent on prison operations, but the MDOC has an expansive definition of spending ...

Corrections officer Kernef D. Jackson admitted to delivering narcotics to an inmate in a scheme that also allegedly involved ...

The Detroit Free Press has documented five fatal and two nonfatal falls or jumps at two Jackson-area prisons since January 2020.

A Bridgeport Township man is to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his wife in front of her children. Remorse ...

The boys were last seen with their father at Thanksgiving in November 2010 in Morenci, a town along the Ohio border. They ...

Former Michigan Department of Corrections officer Kernef Jackson of Saginaw pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the St. Louis Correctional Facility in Gratiot County two years ago.

A historic building that once housed Jackson’s first state prison will be transformed into a year-round farmers’ market to address food insecurity in the city.

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.

Detroit mayoral candidates have raised $3 million, but one campaign's coffers include funds from three felons and a CEO in a dispute with the city.

Insights Sadly, multiple members of Congress have been convicted for various crimes.  Many congressional convictions relate ...

JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) - Jackson is rolling out a new program, “Eyes on the Block,” providing 100 Ring-style cameras to homes ...