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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 ...
The hospital opened in May 1986 and was the first hospital opened by the Michigan Department of Corrections. [1]The facility is named after Dr. Duane Leonard Waters, who worked with the Michigan Corrections Commission for 25 years to modernize health care for Michigan prisons and was an influential advocate of the hospital being built.
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 under its supervision.
In allowing Gordon’s suit to move forward, the Cincinnati-based 6 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said prison officials have a duty to protect inmates from involuntary exposure to dangerous ...
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 ...
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Michigan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Four justice reform advocates and two elected officials take part in a community forum Thursday at the Mulva Library in De Pere to discuss closing Green Bay Correctional Institution.