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.

The parole board three years ago noted Hoover’s role in a deadly riot at Pontiac state prison in 1978. The parole board also pointed to Hoover’s use of a decoding dictionary in his cell in ...

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 federal court in Argentina has granted former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s request to serve a ...

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

Jackson, who resided in Pontiac at the time, according to records, was convicted by plea in 2004 of first-degree home ...

Here are all the winners from the 2024-25 Detroit High School Sports Awards, which were Monday night at The Fillmore Detroit.

Possible mass shooting targeting graduation ceremony thwarted, police say - “I believe we probably prevented a mass shooting,” the local sheriff said.

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 ...