Muskegon Correctional Facility News

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has commuted the life prison sentence of a man convicted of first-degree murder in the 1970 shooting death of a Muskegon Heights liquor store owner.

Muskegon Correctional Facility will be hosting a visit next week from officials of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, who are considering a deal with Michigan that would keep MCF open for a few more years.

School buses were expected to roll today for students in Mt. Clemens Community Schools and other students from Lutheran High Northwest in Rochester Hills and Lakeview Public Schools in St.

Officials from Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections are set to visit the now-closed Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Arenac County and one other Michigan prison next week.

Top prison officials from Pennsylvania's corrections department have scheduled a two-day visit to Michigan next week to review the suitability of a pair of closed state prisons for housing of the Keystone State's excess population.

Jose "Big Joe" Loera wants young people to know there's nothing glamorous about incarceration.

Just about everyone in Muskegon knows the Muskegon Correctional Facility is closing soon, barring an eleventh-hour deal to house inmates from Pennsylvania.

The city of Muskegon's 2010 sewer rates are expected to increase 25 percent because of lost revenue from the closing of the Sappi Fine Paper plant.

The state has begun plans to shut down the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility by Oct.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. The date for the closure of a prison in Muskegon County has been pushed back.

Michigan prison officials expect to know within a month whether California will send inmates to Muskegon Correctional Facility, keeping it from closing.

Michigan prison officials should know within a month whether California will send inmates to the Muskegon Correctional Facility, keeping it from closing.

While Muskegon County officials oppose the state's plan to close the Muskegon Correctional Facility, they admit there could be an upside.

Lansing -- Standish Maximum Correctional Facility has been granted a reprieve from closure while state officials await word on whether California will take Gov.

A man released from prison in 2007 after serving more than 20 years for rape and murder is back behind bars.

In a letter dated Monday June 29th, Governor Granholm formally requested a partnership with the state of California.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm just released a letter she wrote to California Gov.

Empty Michigan prisons -- including one scheduled for closure in Muskegon -- could become home to hundreds of California inmates if a deal can be struck.

While Muskegon County officials oppose the state's plan to close the Muskegon Correctional Facility, they admit there could be an upside.

Curbside recycling and four employees whose positions have been eliminated are the latest victims of city of Muskegon budget-cutting. The Muskegon City Commission Tuesday unanimously cut the budget $852,000, on top of $615,000 in cuts approved two months ago.