Ypsilanti State Representative Jimmie Wilson Jr. wants to form a workgroup to address the conditions of Michigan’s prisons.
Wilson says he recently asked the Legislative Corrections Ombudsman how many inmate fatalities there have been since Heidi Washington became director in 2015. He was told 67 women have died at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility over that time.
Wilson says it appears many of the deaths could have been prevented…