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Demolished 2017. Opened. 1861. Closed. December 2004. Managed by. Michigan Department of Corrections. The Detroit House of Correction ( DeHoCo ), opened in 1861, was owned and run by the City of Detroit but originally accepted prisoners from throughout the state including women. This was the first State operated prison for female felons.
Department of Corrections. The Michigan Department of Corrections ( MDOC) oversees prisons and the parole and probation population in the state of Michigan, United States. It has 31 prison facilities, and a Special Alternative Incarceration program, together composing approximately 41,000 prisoners. Another 71,000 probationers and parolees are ...
Michigan State Prison or Jackson State Prison, which opened in 1839, was the first prison in Michigan. After 150 years, the prison was divided, starting in 1988, into four distinct prisons, still in Jackson: the Parnall Correctional Facility which is a minimum-security prison; [2] the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility where prisoners can finish their general education; [3] the Charles ...
Built in 1749 of wood, it served as a courthouse until 1820. It also served local municipal uses from 1749 until the 1950s. It was opened as a museum in 1970. Michigan: 1839 Courthouse Museum: 1839: Minnesota: Washington County Courthouse: 1870: Built in 1870, it is still used today for other civil functions. Nevada: Genoa Courthouse: 1865
Designated MSHS. November 14, 1974 [2] The Lenawee County Courthouse is a county courthouse located at 309 North Main Street ( M-52) in the city of Adrian in central Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on November 14, 1974, and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 1991. [1]
This is a list of current and former state prisons and minimum security prison camps in Michigan. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in that State. All facilities not otherwise indicated are facilities for men. Michigan State Prison (also called the Jackson Prison) was the first state prison, built in 1842. A larger ...
Van Buren County Courthouse (Michigan) / 42.21611°N 85.89083°W / 42.21611; -85.89083. The Van Buren County Courthouse is a government building located at 212 East Paw Paw Street in Paw Paw, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Marquette Branch Prison. / 46.51222°N 87.38250°W / 46.51222; -87.38250. The Marquette Branch Prison ( MBP) is located in Marquette, Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. The prison, which opened in 1889, is a facility of the Michigan Department of Corrections that holds about 1,100 inmates in maximum and minimum-security housing.