Jail

"This is how you restore faith and hope. This is how keep people from being incarcerated, how you keep victims from being revictimized," said Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson.

When Darrell Ewing landed in the Wayne County Jail a year and a half ago, he found a lot of people struggling. Courts were backed up because of the pandemic, and Ewing said people around him lost loved ones or saw relationships fall apart while they waited – sometimes for years – for their trials to begin. On top of that, no one in the jail had been able to see their friends or family since the jail shut down in-person visitation when COVID broke out in March of 2020.

People detained at the Wayne County Jail say one of the buildings had issues with heating last weekend. Sources detained in the jail say temperatures began to drop on Friday and the Division 2 jail building stayed cold through Monday.

The ‘Good Time’ ballot initiative would give state inmates a way to reduce their time in prison.

A petition drive to repeal Michigan’s “truth-in-sentencing” law expects to begin signature gathering early next year.

Bi-partisan legislation to improve mental health emergency response programs is heading to the state House of Representatives.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a sweeping set of laws that are designed to reduce the number of people being sent to jail and to help people…

There are 20 bills awaiting Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signature that would constitute the state’s biggest criminal justice overhaul in decades. The goal…

Members of a bipartisan jail reform task force are pushing bills to keep many non-violent offenders out of jail. Legislators on the task force says the…

An advocacy group for survivors of domestic violence is raising concerns about the Governor’s executive order allowing for the release of some inmates…