Michigan

The Frame March 5

In ‘Flint Town’, a new documentary series on Netflix, cops wrestle with broken bonds with their community.

By Celina Fang

News January 16

Some states are welcoming back ex-offenders to work behind bars.

By Maurice Chammah and Joseph Neff

Life Inside February 2, 2017

Discipline at work, leniency at home—with doubts.

By Cary Johnson, as told to Maurice Chammah

Life Inside February 25, 2016

When the people in charge are homophobic.

By Corbett J. Yost

Feature January 7, 2016

New programs are easing inmates out of years of solitary confinement with surprising outcomes for both prisoners and corrections officers.

By Maurice Chammah

News August 7, 2015

No Pets for Pariahs

Postscript on the travails of a teenage sex offender.

By Maura Ewing

News May 15, 2015

Why Michigan prisoners aren't taking a video about prison rape seriously.

By Maurice Chammah

News April 14, 2015

Two Confessions

One by a nervous kid. One by a self-styled hit man. A Detroit whodunnit.

By Andrew Cohen

Feature February 25, 2015

A Boy Among Men

What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess.

By Maurice Chammah

News December 17, 2014

Peeping Toms

Do prison inmates have a right to privacy?

By Alysia Santo

Feature December 11, 2014

Trial By Cash

Judicial elections have gotten ugly. That’s bad news for defendants.

By Christie Thompson