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Governor Whitmer shared with lawmakers her $80.7 billion dollar proposed budget for the next fiscal year.

While Pell Grants will soon give access to free college for more than 760,000 inmates under an expansion announced this month, experts warn of inequities and difficulties that will plague incarcerated individuals looking for a degree. Prison education programs are shown to lower recidivism and boost employment opportunities, and, for the first time since 1994,…

State lawmakers approved $7 million for the state Department of Corrections to buy body cameras for state correctional facilities — an effort prison reform advocates call a step toward greater prison transparency.

Calls to incarcerated loved ones can cost some Michigan families hundreds of dollars a month. An adjustment in the Michigan House's corrections budget could help ease that burden.

Some of the proposed changes include putting new programs in place, crisis intervention training for officers, and collaboration between corrections and communities.

The department is resisting calls to request Michigan National Guard members to ease a staffing crunch that has reached "critical" levels.

The department is resisting calls to request Michigan National Guard members to ease a staffing crunch that has reached "critical" levels.

The department is resisting calls to request Michigan National Guard members to ease a staffing crunch that has reached "critical" levels.

Credit Microsoft Images A report released Tuesday by the Citizens for Prison Reform calls for the decreased use of solitary confinement by the Michigan Department of Corrections.  Citizens for Prison Reform is a criminal justice organization that partnered with several Michigan organizations to form the Open MI Door campaign, which aims to end the practice of solitary. The report details a survey of the psychological impact of solitary confinement on incarcerated people and their families. The...

LANSING – A report to be released Tuesday calls on the Michigan Department of Corrections to significantly reduce its use of solitary confinement, saying that isolating prisoners makes mental health problems worse and contributes to prisoner deaths. Citizens for Prison Reform, in a report titled "Solitary: The Family Experience," calls on the department to use isolation "only if absolutely necessary" to protect the safety of prisoners and staff and to limit its use to no more than 15 days...