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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 .
The new Justice Center (which includes the St. Louis County Jail) opened in 1998 and is connected to the Courts Building by a secure skywalk, replacing both the jail in the 1949 Courthouse building and the Adult Correctional Building in Chesterfield. [2] The justice center was rededicated the "Buzz Westfall Justice Center" in 2004. [1]
Central Missouri Correctional Center (closed June 2005) [12] As of 2010 the state did not use private prisons or export prisoners to facilities in other states. [ 13 ] Previously, in 1995, the state had exported prisoners to the Newton County Correctional Center in Newton, Texas, to temporarily alleviate overcrowding.
Closed to allow Robert Scott Correctional Facility to be consolidated with Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility: 2009 Mid-Michigan Correctional Facility: St. Louis: Consolidated with Pine River Correctional Facility and now called Central Michigan Correctional Facility: 2010 October 17 [1] Michigan State Prison: Jackson: Split into ...
The world's first inmate video visitation system was installed in late 1995 followed shortly thereafter with a similar installation at the St. Lucie County Jail in Ft. Pierce, Florida in early 1996. Both of these systems are still in operation, however St. Lucie has upgraded to a more recent version.
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The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security female offenders. FCI Pekin is located approximately 10 miles south of Peoria, Illinois, 180 miles southwest of Chicago, and 180 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. [1] It is located within the city limits of Pekin, Illinois.
The lawsuit alleged that the civil rights of detainees within the facility had been violated by the poor sanitation, limited ventilation, and poor medical care. [11] The lawsuit said temperatures in the prison sometimes surpassed 120 °F (49 °C). In response, St. Louis spent $40,000 on temporary portable air conditioning for the prison.