Despite appearing on a committee agenda Tuesday morning, a package of bills establishing productivity time credits for the incarcerated was not taken up after it became clear the votes weren't there to move them.

A Michigan prisoner will get parole after the Michigan Supreme Court held Monday that the circuit and appeals courts substituted their judgment for that of the Parole Board's.

The Michigan Department of Corrections has handed over several plots of land that once housed the vacant Riverside Correctional Facility in Ionia city to the State Land Bank Authority for a yet-to-determined project.