The Metropolitan Detention Center, known as the M.D.C., is one of the United States’ most notorious federal lockups.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other ...

LANSING, Mich. (WNEM) - The Michigan Department of Corrections is implementing a new policy that will make it harder for contraband to make its way into facilities. The policy will require all ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– In 2025, 19 Michigan Department of Corrections facilities harvested 116,455 pounds of fresh produce, donating it to food pantries, residential care facilities, churches, and ...

The funds held more than $19 million at the end of 2024 but receive no scrutiny from lawmakers. Some Michigan inmates say that despite large balances in the funds intended to help them, they can't ...

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections made an error that let a habitual offender out of prison years too early. Within three months, the ...

This article is third in a series of a reporting collaboration by The Marshall Project - Jackson, Clarion Ledger, Mississippi Today, Hattiesburg American and The Mississippi Link. During a routine ...

An attorney is under investigation and a prisoner is being disciplined after the Department of Corrections accused them of smuggling drugs into Central Michigan Correctional Facility in St. Louis on ...

ST. LOUIS, Mich. (WJRT) - An attorney is accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the Central Michigan Correction Facility. The Michigan Department of Corrections recovered a large amount of contraband ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - A South Mississippi law enforcement officer who spent his career putting people behind bars is now the one headed to jail. Monday, former Mississippi Department of ...