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The old East Unit of the Lansing Correctional Facility will be converted into a drug treatment facility for inmates in the state correctional system.

By David Burke, Special to The Hays Daily News What began as a project linking Fort Hays State University education and criminal justice majors to prisoners across the state brought an even bigger revelation to Dr. Sarah Broman Miller.  “What I found out was that the county jails, most of them, don’t have their own library,” said Broman Miller, assistant professor of teacher education. “If they do, they’re usually a law library of some sort — and by law library I mean a few books.”  Several of the jails, she discovered, had a partnership with the local public library th...

Feds sued over prison attack that killed sex offender, hurt 2 others Detroit — Two federal prison inmates and the estate of a third are suing the government, claiming officials at a Monroe County lockup failed to prevent a 2019 attack on the sex offenders, one of whom was stomped and stabbed to death. Christian Maire, Michal Figura and Craig Evans were attacked in January 2019 in the East Unit of The Federal Correctional Institution, Milan. Maire was stomped and stabbed repeatedly with a shank before being thrown down a flight of stairs, prosecutors said. Figura and Evans survived the at...