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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 ...
Cell Block 7 Prison Museum, State Prison of Southern Michigan: Jackson, Michigan: Michigan: United States Prison Closed as of December 2019. Central Penitentiary San José: San José Province: Costa Rica Prison Cellular Jail: Port Blair: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: India Prison
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 ...
The Jail Cell Area is being repurposed to become a Secure Cloud Computing Data Center. The top level, which was the gymnasium and consists of a regulation size half-court basketball court, is being transformed to a shared workspace for Technology Oriented Businesses.
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.
The facility's buildings were first opened in 1926. Present-day Parnall is one portion of the former Michigan State Prison, described as the largest walled prison in the world as late as 1981, when it was rocked by extensive, damaging riots. [2] The prison was divided in 1988 into smaller institutions. As of 2016, Parnell and three other ...
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 state renovated the woman's division into the new Phoenix facility.
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. The Reformatory was first opened in 1877 and housed "high-risk offenders".