I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Parolees enrolled in a residential drug treatment facility in Macomb County say the building, leased by the Michigan Department of Corrections, is overrun with bedbugs. The Macomb Daily reports the infestation has been verified by former staffers as well as residents in the Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation (SHAR). Bedbugs, which are known to transmit a [...]
MDOC Director Dan Heyns is cautioning that outsourcing may be an ineffective way to meet the recent budget goal of reducing food service expenses by $7 million a year.
Michigan Department of Corrections officer James Sims says he is disappointed with a decision by the MDOC administration to bar him from wearing his uniform in Saturday’s Gay Pride March.
The Michigan Department of Corrections has told corrections officer James Sims that he is not allowed to wear his uniform in Saturday’s gay pride march in Lansing.
A letter to the editor of the Gratiot County News by Ithaca Schools’ Superintendent Nathan Bootz has been making the rounds on the internet for his big ask — he wants his school turned into a prison so it can be adequately funded.
A federal audit of Michigan’s Department of Corrections has slammed the state agency for overspending on medications.
Since July 19, the Michigan Department of Corrections no longer bars HIV-positive inmates from working in food service positions. HIV-positive prisoners had been barred from such jobs, considered some of the most desirable, as well as the highest paying, jobs in the prison system, for years by departmental policy. The policy first came to light [...]
The Michigan Department of Corrections says a deal to house prisoners from Pennsylvania will net the state nearly three quarters of a million dollars in revenue. The Muskegon Chronicle reports on comments from MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan:
LANSING — A Michigan Department of Corrections official has confirmed that the department is in the first stages of making a change to a controversial policy barring HIV-positive prisoners from working in food service jobs.
LANSING — A policy that bars HIV-positive inmates in Michigan prisons from working in food service jobs does not violate state law, according to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. But though the policy may be legal, one leader in the Michigan Department of Corrections says he wants to change the policy.
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