According to IDOC data, the state's prison population has dropped from 38,259 at the end of 2019 to just 27,970 at the end of 2021. The state's highest inmate population was 49,401 in 2013.

PONTIAC — The death of an inmate early Tuesday morning at the Pontiac Correctional Center is being investigated as a homicide, the first at the prison in almost 25 years.

Federal prosecutors have secured seven convictions in a broad crackdown on bid rigging and corruption in Michigan's asphalt paving industry.

PONTIAC — Members of the union that represents Illinois prison staff are calling on the state to hire additional officers in response to a recent attack on two Pontiac Correctional Center officers.

SPRINGFIELD — A prison guard was injured by an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center on Monday, just one month after the Quinn administration moved inmates out of a Southern ...

A forever family, it's what every child deserves, but for the thousands of children in Michigan who land in foster care, the ...

A Mossy Head woman was sentenced Thursday to more than 15 years in state prison for a DUI crash that took the life of her ...

A 26-year-old Pontiac woman is facing criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a teenage student while she ...

After a request for information from the Project Prison Reset Task Force, Box Elder has been added to the list of potential ...

On Tuesday, about 100 men graduated from the equine therapy program. "It blows your mind because you would never think there would be horses. These giant majestic creatures that are very peaceful, ...

The man was stabbed "multiple times" in the prison yard, according to Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews.

An inmate at Georgia's Hancock State Prison has died after officials say he was stabbed multiple times with a homemade weapon ...