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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 ...
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.
Ganges is located in the northwest part of the township at the junction of 122nd Ave and Blue Star Highway at Interstate 196 / US 31 is less than a quarter mile to the west, but the nearest access is from M-89 about a mile to the north.
The prison was opened in 1993 and has eleven major and two minor buildings, totaling approximately 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2), on 100 acres (40 ha) with a capacity of 1416 prisoners. [1] It has seven housing units currently used for Michigan Department of Corrections male prisoners 18 years of age and older.
At 113 acres (46 ha) it was the largest fenced area of any state prison in Michigan. [ 4 ] The original facility was closed in October 2015, having gained the ability to house almost 1,600 inmates.
The prison was opened in 1991 and is named after the Michigan Department of Corrections's first director, Gus Harrison. [1] On August 9, 2009, Parr Highway Correctional Facility was consolidated into Gus Harrison Correctional Facility. [2] In early 2021, the facility was fined $6,300 over serious violations of Coronavirus regulations. [3]
Jason Brian Dalton, perpetrator of the 2016 Kalamazoo shootings in which he murdered six people and injured two more.; Tim Holland, adoptive father of Ricky Holland. Pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder and testified against his wife, Lisa Holland in her murder trial where she was subsequently found guilty of murder and is serving a life sentence.