An internal affairs division from the Michigan Department of Corrections is looking into the circumstances of three women who died this spring at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.
MDOC director Heidi Washington provided that information in a three-page letter dated June 18, intended as a response to a letter Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-District 6, sent to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The correspondence is among discussions that have become public about conditions at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti. Huron Valley is the only state prison in Michigan for female inmates. Those statements included a letter signed in May by over three dozen current and former lawmakers, demanding the immediate resignation of Washington as the department’s director…