Michigan jails

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy won’t file any criminal charges stemming from the death of Priscilla Slater.Slater died in the Harper Woods jail in…

A politically diverse coalition of advocacy groups has urged the Michigan Legislature to pass an 18 bill package of criminal justice measures before…

A federal judge has ruled that Oakland County must set up a process to release medically vulnerable inmates from its jail.The ruling stems from a lawsuit…

Today on Stateside, we talk to a leader in Michigan's Chaldean community about his meeting with Vice President Mike Pence about the future for detained…

Michigan has a real shot at reducing its county jail population if it acts on some recent task force recommendations.That’s what Lieutenant Governor…

Wayne County is in the middle of an effort to reduce its jail population, and it’s just received some early data to help guide that effort.The county is…

This week, the St. Clair County jail will start offering some inmates a chance to get on medications that can help them kick opioid addiction.The…

A new task force will explore who is in Michigan’s jails and why they’re there. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Wednesday.The order…

You might think of Heidi Washington as the chief of 40,000 people scattered across the state in 30 different camps. Except she has much more power over…

Six years ago, the superintendent of a small and struggling school district in Gratiot County wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to Governor Rick Snyder…