Family Member Says Disgraced Detroit Ex-Mayor Working To Improve Prison System
Wonder what Kwame Kilpatrick is up to these days? A family member of the former inmate said he's working to improve the prison system.
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Wonder what Kwame Kilpatrick is up to these days? A family member of the former inmate said he's working to improve the prison system.
The Michigan Department of Corrections says two parole agents have been suspended as officials investigate why two ex-convicts now charged with killing an 80-year-old Royal Oak woman were on the streets in the first place.
An Upper Peninsula woman who took a bite out of a man's nose has been sent to federal prison for nearly four years.
Detroit police say 33-year old Nasir Banks is accused of walking into a home on Schoenherr near Eight Mile and shooting three men.
Police and the Michigan Attorney General say the two men accepted money and smuggled marijuana and tobacco into the inmates' cells.
Michigan female prisoners who claim they were sexually harassed will be able to keep their settlement money.
County prosecutors must be notified when prison inmates are set free under a bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder.
A 43-year-old prison inmate serving time for soliciting a murder has been arraigned on accusations he plotted the kidnapping and murder of a Michigan legislator.
More than 1,000 inmates at Mound Correctional Facility in Detroit will be moved in the coming months after state corrections officials announced Wednesday they're closing the medium-security prison after all.
A West Michigan lawmaker says she wants to ban porn in Michigan prisons.
Former NBA player and Michigan State star Jay Vincent is asking a judge to keep him out of prison so he can repay victims of a fraud scheme.
Questions are being raised about why some convicted felons in Michigan are allowed to remain free on bond ahead of sentencing after several cases where they didn't show up for their punishment.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is scheduled to be released from prison on Tuesday, August 2nd.
Maintaining security is an issue in privatization of services such as feeding prisoners as the state looks to cut millions of dollars from incarceration-related costs.
It looks like former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be in jail a little longer than expected.
A prison spokesman says the Michigan parole board has voted to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kwame Kilpatrick says he's overcome with sorrow. The former Mayor of Detroit is talking to the Associated Press about his rise and fall from power from behind bars.
It looks like pending charges against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may play a factor in his request for parole.
The ACLU is taking aim at a Michigan law that allows juvenile offenders to be locked up for life without parole.
Former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers wants to go home early.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is sharing a prison cell with a convicted killer.
A Michigan woman who escaped from prison in the 70's and started a completely new life in California appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Thursday, to tell her story.
A judge has granted ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's request to move back to state prison, where he will be considered for parole.
Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is back in federal court in an attempt to set the stage for his possible release from prison this summer.
An Inkster police officer who plead guilty to lying in a major drug case will serve prison time.
