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The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Michigan Department of Corrections to lift its ban on foreign-language books.

Michigan prisons have hundreds of staff shortages. A bill adopted Tuesday by the state House could help address the problem.

The state department of corrections estimates it has about 770 unfilled jobs.

It costs at least $240 million a year to keep people locked up in local jails in Indiana, with some counties spending around a quarter of their yearly…

An Indiana Department of Correction policy may increase the spread of coronavirus in prisons by requiring “high risk” and “medium risk” staffers to report…

Sherrie Sanders says she last spoke with her husband, George, on April 12. It was Easter Sunday. “He told me he was very sick. He had a fever of 102,” she…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s prison system has reported the first death of a guard after contracting the coronavirus. The state Department of Correction…

The Indiana State Health Commissioner, Dr. Kristina Box, gave the day’s tally of COVID-19 figures for April 16 and disclosed that 80 inmates at the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s prison populations are still eating meals together in large groups and mixing during outdoor recreation even as Hoosiers are…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials have agreed to double hiring bonuses for dentists who choose to work in state hospitals and prisons in an effort…