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The state House has adopted bills that would allow prisoners in advanced stages of illness including cancer and dementia to be paroled for medical…
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More problems plague the food in Michigan’s prisons. This time it’s maggots. An investigation by the Detroit Free Press found three separate incidents…
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There are 2.2 million people now incarcerated in American prisons. Each year, hundreds of thousands of those inmates are released. One of the most...
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IPR reporters Morgan Springer and Daniel Wanschura were recognized Saturday at the annual Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) awards banquet in St.…
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Today, the Michigan Department of Corrections announced that Pugsley Correctional Facility in Kingsley is scheduled to close in September. The low…
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Thanks to an opinion handed down Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, some 350 Michigan prison inmates woke up today with a new view on life. In a six-to-t...
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Imagine that you’re in prison, and you mess up. Maybe you lose your temper and lash out at a corrections officer, or you use your fists to resolve a con...
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Aging inmates are the fastest-growing population in Michigan’s prisons. This has presented a critical challenge: how to provide end-of-life care to...
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Incarcerated poets get together weekly at Writer’s Block, a poetry writing workshop at Macomb Correctional Facility outside Detroit. Eight inmates file…
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What determines whether a prisoner should be paroled? In Michigan, that decision is informed by a risk assessment questionnaire called COMPAS. Sonja B....