Corrections Officers

The department is looking for not only corrections officers, but health care and skilled trades staff to boost staffing levels at several state prisons across the state.

Officers will be hosting three informational pickets at correctional facilities in Marquette, Baraga and Chippewa counties next week.

Christopher Cluley will avoid incarceration after years of back and forth in the courts.

Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee, D-Flint, recently introduced legislation to the House Ways and Means Committee that would eliminate a tax penalty on state and local correctional officers who chose to retire before the age of 60.

Michigan’s new budget attempts to tackle the shortage of employees in the state’s prisons.The boost in money for hiring new corrections officers would…

Michigan’s prisons are in crisis: The state cannot find enough corrections officers to staff them.Older officers are retiring, others are quitting, and…