5 Second Rule? Prison Food Vendor Literally Served Michigan Inmates Garbage
A food service vendor for Michigan's correction system is in trouble once again.
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A food service vendor for Michigan's correction system is in trouble once again.
State attorneys have persuaded the Michigan Supreme Court to intervene and put a temporary freeze on a lawsuit that accuses prison officials of failing to prevent the sexual assault of male teen inmates.
Prison officials believe Boone would benefit more from weight loss and exercise.
45-year-old Richard Boone, a convicted robber, is in a prison in Kingsley near Traverse City. His medical history includes a hip replacement and major leg surgery.
Hekmati was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to death for spying. The U.S. denies he's a spy.
A federal appeals court has deflated a Michigan prisoner's air mattress.
Sheriff Anthony Wickersham is submitting a list of early release candidates to Macomb Chief Circuit Court Judge John Foster, who can modify sentences, reduce bonds and release prisoners on tether.
Prison guard Kevin Ott was left with a fractured skull and stabbed multiple times after being attacked by an inmate with a lock hidden inside a sock.
Ed Buss told reporters in Lansing that better staffing alleviates other problems, and overall performance of Aramark Correctional Services "needs to be much better."
It's at least the second case of an Aramark employee being accused of smuggling drugs since the company began a $145-million contract with Michigan in December.
Schauer said the fine's cancellation shows "rank corruption" in Snyder's administration and Snyder "lied" by not confirming until Thursday that Aramark Correctional Services' fine was canceled.
The state says an inmate used a prison-made weapon to stab a guard multiple times at a prison near Jackson.
"No more hiding the obvious. We are substituting a negative with a positive."
The former Michigan Supreme Court Justice says she is afraid because it is possible she sentenced inmates in her prison facility.
Security at Michigan prisons has apparently gotten weaker in the six weeks since food service operations were handed over to a private contractor.
A new grant is allowing some homeless to get off the street and into a new apartment.
She was at the center of one of the biggest scandals in the history of Detroit.
Some laid off state prison food service workers may make a big career change.
Michigan prison guards have filed a lawsuit accusing the state of failing to pay for certain duties performed before and after their shifts.
State officials reversed themselves Tuesday in deciding to hire a private company to prepare food for Michigan's 44,000 prisoners, saying they originally misjudged a plan that would actually save the state about $16 million.
A Michigan man who reaped $2 million by telling inmates that he could spring them from prison wants to withdraw his guilty plea after learning he could face decades behind bars.
We're learning more about life behind bars for ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and friend Bobby Ferguson, convicted yesterday and sent to jail to await sentencing.
A 66-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the 2008 slayings of his brother and sister-in-law in their Livingston County home.
Tia Skinner's life sentence will be revisited because the U.S. Supreme Court banned mandatory no-parole sentences for teens convicted of murder. She was 17 at the time of the deadly attack.
Should teens convicted of the most brutal crimes be punished just like adults? Or should their youth matter?
