Lansing — Audit reports released Thursday raised concerns about the safety of Michigan's prisons, finding corrections officers often failed to properly search vehicles and prisoners' cells and ...

The Michigan auditor general's findings come amid a chronic prison understaffing problem that corrections officers say is jeopardizing safety.

A corrections officer resigned two days after officials found contraband in a vest he wore into a New York prison, federal prosecutors said. Getty Images/iStockphoto As a corrections officer tried to ...