A Michigan Department of Corrections employee filed a lawsuit alleging that the prison system’s former spokesperson coerced her into having sex with him while he was her supervisor.

A music video shot behind bars at the Macomb Correctional Facility results from two cellmates getting together, hoping to make a hit.

A state correction official says a Michigan man who was serving life sentences for the 1972 killings of four women in the Kalamazoo area has died after being found unresponsive in prison.

“These staff shortages are making life immeasurably worse for inmates," said Sen. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor.

WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. Robert Bashara, a former Rotary Club president in suburban Detroit who was convicted of arranging his wifes murder, has died, more than five years after he was sentenced to life in prison, the Corrections Department said Tuesday. Bashara, 62, died Monday at a hospital, said spokesman Chris Gautz, who declined to offer additional details. Bashara, known as Master Bob, was accused of hiring a handyman to kill Jane Bashara so he could devote more time to cavorting with other women who shared his desire for sexual bondage and domination. Jane Bashara was strangled in their garage in Grosse Pointe Park in 2012. Timeline: Jane Bashara murder case

GOP lawmakers say their plan could prevent a gasoline tax increase and would spend a record amount on infrastructure. Spokesman Chris Gautz warned of cuts to inmate education programs and prisoner health care, along with 75 layoffs. It also couldn't fill prison guard vacancies or open a vocational village at Michigan's only women's prison, he said. BUSINESS INCENTIVESThe Michigan Economic Development Corp. would have to reduce its business attraction and community revitalization incentives by $26 million, or 25%. I don't think we should be spending more tomorrow on things that would cost less today."

Workers at the Ionia Correctional Facility blocked inmate access to five stories this year concerning criminal proceedings against a probation officer. (WDIV)LANSING, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Corrections is examining how its mail policy is applied after officers at one prison prevented inmates from reading some stories published by the Lansing State Journal. Workers at the Ionia Correctional Facility blocked inmate access to five stories this year concerning criminal proceedings against a probation officer, prisoners' parole and re-sentencing hearings and a lawsuit filed by state prisoners. The Journal reports the Michigan Press Association has questioned why most of the blocked stories were considered unfit for prisoners' eyes. Department spokesman Chris Gautz says the mail policy is designed to keep prisons safe and MDOC workers' lives private.