Heidi Washington

A Michigan Department of Corrections report says the rate of repeat offenders being returned to prisons is at an all-time low. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Corrections departments across the country are seeing an increase in the use of contraband cell phones and, subsequently, a direct correlation to an increase in organized crimes in prisons. WEMU’s Caroline MacGregor chats with MDOC Director Heidi Washington about calls for state legislation to pass signal jamming technology to detect and disrupt contraband cell phone use in correctional facilities.

The state corrections officers union is calling for Michigan Corrections Department Director Heidi Washington to lose her job. Rick Pluta reports.The…

Experts in mental health and criminal justice were in Lansing Tuesday as part of Governor Rick Snyder’s efforts to overhaul both systems – and help people…