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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 ...
1149. Opened. reopened Nov 2007. Closed. Nov 2022. Managed by. Michigan Department of Corrections. The Michigan Reformatory was a state prison for men located in Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. [1] The facility has 352 beds at Level II security and 797 beds at Level IV security.
1974. Opened. 1985. Managed by. Michigan Department of Corrections. The G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan, owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. [ 1] This facility dates from 1985. Cotton, which is an inmate educational facility, is one portion ...
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.
The prison was opened in April 1985, after the facility was taken over from the Coldwater Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities and renovated. A new housing unit and food service building were opened in March 2000. The prison was closed on June 1, 2011, and in 2019 several buildings were torn down.
On May 31, 2016, Michigan Department of Corrections announced intentions to close Pugsley during the following fiscal year. They cited the facility's age, limited capacity, and a reduction in state prison population. Pugsley's budget for 2017 was cut accordingly. The prison is anticipated to close by September 24, 2016.
West Shoreline Correctional Facility (MTF) / 43.2095104; -86.180963. West Shoreline Correctional Facility ( MTF) was a Michigan prison, located in Muskegon Heights, for adult male prisoners. It permanently closed on March 24, 2018, and has since been torn down.