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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.
The state renovated the woman's division into the new Phoenix facility. The Detroit House of Correction 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. It closed in December 2004 and all inmates and staff were transferred to the Women's Huron Valley ...
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 ...
Detroit Detention Center (DDC) is a detention center located in eastern Detroit, Michigan. The facility, which operates as a central lockup for Detroit , is staffed by personnel from the Detroit Police Department and the Michigan Department of Corrections .
List of Michigan state prisons * Template:State prisons in Michigan; A. Alger Correctional Facility; B. ... Michigan Department of Corrections; Detroit Detention Center;
Corrections officers and Michigan State Police troopers arrested Terry on Aug. 13 in a wooded area outside the prison fence. ... Detroit man gets prison for plan to throw drugs over prison fence.
Detroit at the time had over half of the 20,000 parolees in the state correctional system. [6] Glenn S. Anderson, a Michigan state senator from Westland, [5] [7] said that the plan should not proceed because the prisoners would become discipline problems since it is too far for family members to come visit them. [7]