JACKSON COUNTY, MI — Another Michigan prisoner has jumped from an upper railing in a Jackson-area prison. An inmate at the Parnall Correctional Facility, 1780 E. Parnall Road, intentionally fell from ...

The Oct. 22 incident is the seventh fall or jump from upper galleries at two Michigan prisons that the Free Press has documented since 2020. Five of those incidents have been fatal, records show.

Two state prisons outside Jackson will soon have safety railings installed after multiple prisoners have died falling or jumping from an upper level of the facilities. The House Appropriations ...

Lawmakers told the Michigan Department of Corrections they can shift $10 million that was appropriated for other purposes, to make the safety fixes. A Senate committee earlier tried to get money for ...