The boys were last seen with their father at Thanksgiving in November 2010 in Morenci, a town along the Ohio border. They ...

Former Michigan Department of Corrections officer Kernef Jackson of Saginaw pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the St. Louis Correctional Facility in Gratiot County two years ago.

The Detroit Free Press has documented five fatal and two nonfatal falls or jumps at two Jackson-area prisons since January 2020.

A Michigan Department of Corrections officer has admitted in court to smuggling drugs to an inmate incarcerated for murder. Kernef D. Jackson, 64, on Nov. 6 appeared in Saginaw County Circuit Court ...

A historic building that once housed Jackson’s first state prison will be transformed into a year-round farmers’ market to address food insecurity in the city.

Anyone who drives a car understands the sting of having to fill up their tank and pulling into the gas station, only to discover that gas prices have skyrocketed. Paying extra for gas means you have ...

Michigan City officials are asking the governor to restore an agreement to redevelop the Indiana State Prison site. The previous agreement was rescinded when the governor decided to keep the prison ...

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.

A lawsuit alleging that the Michigan Department of Corrections instructed guards to use body cameras during routine strip searches at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County ...

LANSING — A Kent County lawyer is facing a 20-year felony charge for attempting to smuggle drugs into a mid-Michigan prison. Jayne Ashley Carver, 42, who has a law office in Belmont, about nine miles ...