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Pugsley Correctional Facility was named after Earl C. Pugsley, (1885–1976) of Hart, Michigan in Oceana County. [3] He was a Republican; an Attorney; a Circuit Court Judge in the Michigan's 27th Circuit, from 1930 to 1959; and candidate for Justice of State of Michigan Supreme Court], in 1942. [5]
Jul. 27—FIFE LAKE — After almost an hour of heated public comment, Exodus Place CEO Robb Munger said he decided against developing a former correctional facility into transitional housing. On ...
Camp Lehman’s parent facility was the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Michigan; until July 2009, when the camp became the responsibility of the Pugsley Correctional Facility Kingsley, Michigan. In June 2003, the prisoner population increased to 582 prisoners by double bunking each of the three eighty room housing units.
The Detroit House of Corrections was transferred to the state in 1986, renamed to Western Wayne Correctional Facility, and became a women's facility for the rest of its tenure. It eventually closed in December 2004 and all inmates and staff were transferred to the Huron Valley Complex in Ypsilanti.
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The California Correctional Center in Susanville, shown in 2021, was one of three prisons Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved for closure. It closed last year. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
The state secure-facilities network supervises a diverse offender population. The physical plants also span centuries, from the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia (built in the late 1870s) to the modern Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, which was completed in 2001.
The facility has 352 beds at Level II security and 797 beds at Level IV security. The Reformatory was first opened in 1877 and housed "high-risk offenders". It closed in 2000 with the opening of the nearby Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, then was reopened in 2007. A Michigan House Appropriation Subcommittee recommended its closure again in ...