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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 ...
A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Facility/prison. The prison was opened in 2009 and has 10 housing pods, currently used for Michigan Department of Corrections male prisoners 18 years of age and older, except under certain circumstances when prisoners age 17 and below are admitted and housed separately. The facility is capable of providing on-site routine medical and dental ...
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.
Prisons. Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility (formerly Highview; inmate operating capacity 450) Columbia Correctional Institution (capacity 541) Dodge Correctional Institution. Fox Lake Correctional Institution. Green Bay Correctional Institution. Jackson Correctional Institution (capacity 988) Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution.