The Jackson County Board of Commissioners is considering a proposal from the County Parks Department to fix up several old and unused buildings on the high stone-walled grounds of the historic ...

LANSING — Michigan prison officials are investigating after a drone-like toy flew undetected over the wall at a Jackson-area prison Tuesday and was later discovered on the ground by staff.

Michigan State Prison. Jackson is home to Michigan’s first prison. ... By 1882, it was the largest walled prison in the world at the time and a quarter the size of Jackson in terms of population.

Jackson Vogel will not be eligible for parole after receiving a life sentence for the hate crime death of his cellmate in ...

When Jackson first went to prison in 1960, the U.S. incarcerated population was about 10 % of what it is today. "Prisons are undoubtedly the most restrictive reading environments in the country." ...

The Wall Street Journal. English ... WASHINGTON—A Tennessee man received a 7-1/2-year prison sentence for dragging a ... U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed the 90-month sentence on ...

A Jackson prison worker was arrested Thursday for allegedly smuggling drugs into the correctional facility, state police said. Officials said troopers arrested the employee of the Michigan ...

CHICAGO—Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will be released from a federal prison camp on Thursday and serve the final months of his sentence in a Washington, D.C. halfway house, according to a ...

When Michigan became a state in the 1830s, the first act by Governor Stevens T. Mason was to build Jackson prison, which became the largest walled prison in the world at one time. Today there are ...

Kesha Jackson was preparing for her husband, John, to be home in a few weeks. He was incarcerated in Forrest City federal prison in Arkansas, awaiting a court hearing for early release after 18 years.

A Wisconsin man serving time for attempting to kill his mother has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling his cellmate.