Lawsuit against Michigan's women's prison can move forward, court says
A federal appeals court says that a lawsuit alleging dangerous conditions at Michigan's Huron Valley Correctional Facility can move forward.
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A federal appeals court says that a lawsuit alleging dangerous conditions at Michigan's Huron Valley Correctional Facility can move forward.
The lawsuit claims that MDOC policy required cameras to be put in sleep mode in areas where there was a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The Michigan Department of Corrections says officers at Baraga Correctional Facility stopped drug smuggling involving several people, including inmates and a Muskegon woman.
An Adrian corrections officer was arraigned Tuesday on criminal sexual conduct charges in Lenawee County, according to the Michigan Department of Attorney General.
A Warren man was sentenced after being convicted by a Macomb County jury in July on all charges, including 10 felonies, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido announced Friday.
The Michigan House voted on Tuesday for a legislative plan aimed at safety and transparency in the state's prisons after multiple inmate deaths, Michigan House Republicans said.
A man was found unresponsive in his cell at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility on Wednesday and later pronounced dead, marking the second suspected homicide investigation at the Ionia prison in less than five months.
A Detroit man faces multiple charges related to a narcotics smuggling investigation at Michigan state prison facilities.
A man serving life sentences at a Michigan prison after he was convicted of three murders in 2006 is dead after he was found unresponsive in his cell on Wednesday, according to the state's Department of Corrections.
A Michigan Department of Corrections officer has been charged with allegedly opening a cell door and allowing an inmate to attack a fellow correction officer.
The Michigan Department of Corrections on Thursday released an autopsy report for Khaira Howard, one of four women who died at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility.
This comes just days after a woman serving time there died in early July, the fourth in a span of just two months.
An inmate who was serving a life term at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Institute died Thursday, the Michigan Department of Corrections said.
A State of Michigan prison warden in charge of the Huron Valley Correctional Facility is on leave, state officials confirmed.
An internal affairs division from the Michigan Department of Corrections is looking into the deaths of three inmates this spring at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility.
A former Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility corrections officer accused of engaging in multiple sexual acts with prisoners is headed to prison.
Following claims of toxic mold at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the Michigan Department of Corrections says testing did not show "evidence of systemic black or toxic mold conditions."
Michigan corrections officials have suspended a worker and paused all third-shift special assignments at a facility while investigating a cleaning project that involved inmates.
An inmate serving time at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan has died, state officials said Saturday. The incident marks the third inmate death tied to the institution in a span of a month.
Legislation has been introduced to address safety and transparency at Michigan's state prisons in the aftermath of recent inmate deaths.
Nearly three dozen lawmakers have demanded the immediate resignation of Heidi Washington as director of the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Khaira Howard's family is now on a quest for justice. The family says she had only been at Huron Valley for less than a year.
The Michigan Department of Corrections is investigating after the second death of an inmate in four days at the state's only women's prison.
The department confirmed to CBS News Detroit that the woman, 28-year-old Khaira Howard, died on May 13.
Jewelry valued at about $78,000 was stolen during a smash-and-grab break-in at a store in Clinton Township.
