Eric Holcomb wants the people of Michigan City, and their elected representatives, to decide how to repurpose the Indiana State Prison property once the Department of Correction vacates it in a ...

Michigan’s prison population has fallen to its lowest level in more than three decades, and state officials say the decline is no accident. The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC ...

On today’s quarterly earnings call, for-profit prison operator GEO Group’s CEO J ... So far this year, GEO Group has entered into a contract with ICE for a 1,800-bed North Lake Facility in Baldwin, ...

A recent audit uncovered significant security lapses at three state prisons, including two in Ionia County, according to a report released by Michigan's Office of the Auditor General. The ...

A $500 million lawsuit filed Monday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court is taking aim at the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging that prison officials subjected hundreds of incarcerated ...

The county population: 12,000, detention beds: 1,800. Related: Idled Northern Michigan private prison to reopen as ICE ... it then landed out-of-state contracts, briefly housing Californian ...

“As alleged in the complaint,” reads the document, “drug smuggling by corrections officers is a chronic problem throughout the Michigan state prisons. The complaint recounts two incidents ...

She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. Michigan State University and Wayne State University are among the latest colleges to report that some of the visas for their international ...

This may not be primarily a Midwestern story, but undocumented and legal immigrants live throughout the U.S. In pockets of the Midwest, the conflicts over them are intense.

The 1,800-bed North Lake Facility, the state’s only private prison ... leading Geo Group to not renew the contract. The prison first opened after former Michigan Gov. John Engler signed a ...

A private prison ... in west Michigan that has been closed since 2022 as a processing center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Florida-based GEO Group, which owns the 1,800-bed ...