If passed, the Ombudsman would be able to investigate complaints from corrections employees, family members of prisoners or ...
Legislation has been introduced to address safety and transparency at Michigan's state prisons in the aftermath of recent ...
The director of the Michigan Department of Corrections visited the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility Friday after ...
Michigan Department of Corrections Director Heidi E. Washington and other department leaders have recently been on site at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the department said in a ...
Michigan Department of Corrections Director Heidi E. Washington and other department leaders have been onsite this week at ...
State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky sent a letter signed by her and 33 other state representatives to Michigan Department of ...
Nearly three dozen lawmakers have demanded the immediate resignation of Heidi Washington as director of the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Khaira Howard, who warned lawmakers about mold at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, died weeks before her scheduled parole. Another inmate died days later ...
The lawmakers' letter notes that in the past month alone four deaths have occurred at state prisons that attracted public ...
Eight prisoners have died in Michigan custody in two months. Four are suspected homicides. MDOC owes the public answers, not ...
The letter cites a pattern of denial, dishonesty, obfuscation and obstruction under the leadership of MDOC Director Heidi ...
LANSING — A state lawmaker is calling for an investigation by the attorney general and removal of the director of the Michigan Department of Corrections after a 28-year old inmate who had reached out ...