Michigan Department of Corrections

An attempt by Michigan prisoners to get stoned and phoned with a drone was halted by police. Just before 4 a.m. on Aug. 17, two corrections officers at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia — halfway between Lansing and Grand Rapids — heard the drone in the prison yard...

Richard Wershe Jr. — ‘White Boy Rick’ — was granted parole Friday after serving nearly three decades of a life sentence in a Michigan prison on a cocaine charge. Wershe, who turns 48 next week, said during a parole hearing last month that he began working as a police...