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The original Kinross Correctional Facility was opened on January 16, 1978, on the barracks grounds of the former Kincheloe Air Force Base [3] with an original capacity of 495 prisoners - which was increased to approximately 700 shortly after. At 113 acres (46 ha) it was the largest fenced area of any state prison in Michigan.
The base was known by various names, including Kinross Municipal Airport, Kinross Army Air Field, Kinross Air Field, Kinross Air Force Auxiliary Field, and Kinross Air Force Base. The present-day Chippewa County International Airport , Kinross Correctional Facility , and the community of Kincheloe are located on the site of the base.
Camp Koehler was a 240-bed Level I work/medical camp located adjacent to Kinross Correctional Facility and was under there administration. Camp Koehler, which opened in 1988, included the Housing unit, a relatively new administration building, and an attached new Food Service building.
Michigan Department of Corrections Honor Guard at assembly before 27th Annual Candlelight Vigil at National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. 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 ...
The facility opened in 1989. On August 9, 2009, the Straits Correctional Facility was closed and consolidated into the Chippewa Correctional Facility. [1]In August 2006, a small twin-engine plane crashed near the prison, hitting a fence approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) outside the facility's secure perimeter.
On July 15, 2010, Privacky was shot and killed during a failed prison escape attempt at Kinross Correctional Facility, a low to medium-security prison in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He had 32 prison misconducts, including ones for substance abuse, gambling, theft, and misconducts in October 2009 for possessing a weapon and for fighting the same ...
The Kansas prison in Lansing was placed on lockdown on Friday evening after a fight between inmates led to one being hospitalized and three Kansas Department of Corrections employees being injured.
The facility offers libraries, barbering, handicrafts, education programs, substance-abuse treatment, psychotherapy, and religious services to the inmates. Onsite medical and dental care, provided by mini-clinics in each housing unit, is supplemented by local hospitals and the Duane L. Waters Hospital in Jackson, Michigan .