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The Detroit House of Corrections, built in 1861, was owned and run by the city of Detroit but originally accepted prisoners from throughout the state including women. 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.
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.
North Lake Correctional Facility is a privately owned medium- and maximum-security prison for men located in Baldwin, Lake County, Michigan, operated by GEO Group under contract for the Michigan Department of Corrections. [1] Current capacity of the facility is 1741 inmates.
The facility previously housed Mound Correctional Facility, which was closed on January 8, 2012. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was reopened as part of an inter-agency collaboration between the State of Michigan and City of Detroit in August 2013 as the Detroit Detention Center.
The first Detroit House of Correction opened in 1861 near Detroit's Eastern Market. [1] In 1919, the city of Detroit purchased approximately 1,000 acres (400 ha) in Plymouth Township and Northville Township for approximately US$30 (equivalent to $527.22 in 2023) an acre to house a new Detroit House of Correction. A prison camp, with inmates ...
Judges throughout the state began demanding that Pahokee be closed. During a July 1999 hearing, Palm Beach County Juvenile Judge Ron Alvarez warned that keeping the facility open without improvements courted disaster. “Treatment of these children comes dangerously close to being inhumane,” the judge said. “We’re dealing with human beings.
Mound Correctional Facility was a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison located in eastern Detroit, Michigan. [1] It was adjacent to the Detroit Reentry Center (formerly the Ryan Correctional Facility). The facility which housed Mound was reopened in August 2013 as the Detroit Detention Center. [2]
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