Key GOP lawmaker calls on Michigan prison chief to resign over staffing issues • Michigan Advance
The ranking member of the House Budget Committee on Thursday called on Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Director Heidi Washington to resign, citing safety concerns...
Melissa Etheridge, 63, shares the heartwarming reason she performs in prisons… and it has to do with the late singer Johnny Cash
Do YOU have a story? Email us at [email protected] Melissa Etheridge wants to “make a big impact” like her country idol Johnny Cash. The 63-year-old...
Michigan correctional officer calls on governor to send National Guard to prisons
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A Michigan corrections official has asked Governor Gretchen Whitmer to send the Michigan National Guard to prisons across the state. Byron Osborn...
Former Missouri prison guards plead not guilty to murder of black man
Four former Missouri guards have pleaded not guilty to the December prison killing of a black man, and a fifth has pleaded not guilty to...
Son sentenced to prison under ‘deplorable conditions’ for his role in his father’s death
In what a judge called an “extraordinarily difficult case,” a West Des Moines man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for killing his...
Second suspect arrested in connection with the kidnapping of two Louisiana children and the death of one of the children
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi June 13,...
Two Texas prison guards are indicted by a county grand jury in the suffocation death of an inmate
Two prison guards have been charged with murder for choking to death an inmate in Texas. Tuesday’s indictment accuses 48-year-old Joel Garcia and 37-year-old Rafael...
Interesting facts about the case of Missouri prison guards accused of murdering a black man
MINNEAPOLIS – Five prison guards have been charged in connection with the December death of a black man who was pepper-sprayed at a correctional facility,...
Two Texas prison guards are indicted by a county grand jury in the suffocation death of an inmate
Two prison guards have been charged with murder for choking to death an inmate in Texas. Tuesday’s indictment accuses 48-year-old Joel Garcia and 37-year-old Rafael...
Interesting facts about the case of Missouri prison guards accused of murdering a black man
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Five prison guards were charged in the Death of a black man in December who was sprayed with pepper spray, covered his...