A union representing Michigan corrections officers is sounding alarms over an increase in violent assaults against prison staff, alleging the state is too often holding dangerous prisoners in lower-security settings not designed to house them. In 2024, there were 71 assaults on employees at the four Michigan prisons that house the state’s highest-security inmates, according to a review by Bridge Michigan. That was up from 44 in 2023 . The state has not yet released critical incident reports for