IONIA COUNTY, MI – Corrections officer Jordan Csernyik was monitoring the food line at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility when an inmate threw trays at his face and began punching. Csernyik ...

LANSING — Audits released Thursday, March 27, point to significant security failures at two Ionia prisons. Corrections officers apparently falsified cell search records and frequently took less ...

In a rare development, four Michigan corrections officers have been criminally charged with assaulting a prisoner. The charges in Ionia County arise from a July 7, 2024 incident at Bellamy Creek ...

The Auditor General found the Ionia Correctional Facility and Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility — which sit side by side off M-21 on the west side of Ionia — had problems with the ...

Thomas Albert, R-Lowell, who represents a portion of Ionia County in the state Senate ... been the director of the Michigan Department of Corrections since July 2015, starting under Republican ...

Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler, who, until late 2022, had four state prisons in his county and now has three, said Tuesday that it's rare for state prison officers to be charged for their use ...