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The Michigan Department of Corrections oversees prison

Prison

A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...

s and other correctional facilities in the state of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

, USA. It has 34 prison facilities, and a Special Alternative Incarceration program, together composing approximately 44,000 prisoners. Another 72,000 probation

Probation

Probation literally means testing of behaviour or abilities. In a legal sense, an offender on probation is ordered to follow certain conditions set forth by the court, often under the supervision of a probation officer...

ers and parole

Parole

Parole may have different meanings depending on the field and judiciary system. All of the meanings originated from the French parole . Following its use in late-resurrected Anglo-French chivalric practice, the term became associated with the release of prisoners based on prisoners giving their...

es are under its supervision. (2010 figures) The agency has its headquarters in Grandview Plaza in Lansing

Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...

Correctional Facilities Administration

The Correctional Facilities Administration (CFA) is responsible for the state's prisons and camps, including the Special Alternative Incarceration (boot camp). CFA has administrative offices in Lansing where a Deputy Director oversees the network of secure facilities. The network is divided into two regions, and each region has a Regional Prison Administrator who has oversight over wardens. At the local level, the wardens oversee daily operations of the prisons and camps. CFA also manages several peripheral aspects of facility operation, including prisoner transportation, food service and classification.

The state secure-facilities network supervises a diverse offender population. The physical plants also span centuries, from the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia (built in the late 1870s) to the modern Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, which was completed in 2001. The prisons are categorized into different security levels. A Secure Level I facility houses prisoners who are more easily managed within the network (even though they may have committed violent crimes). The state's Level V prisons house prisoners who pose maximum management problems, are a maximum security risk, or both.

Alphabetical List of Prisons

• Alger Correctional Facility (LMF)

• Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility (AMF)

• Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility (IBC)

• Carson City Correctional Facility (DRF)

• Central Michigan Correctional Facility (STF)

• Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center (RGC)

• Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF)

• Cooper Street Correctional Facility (JCS)

• Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility (LRF)

• G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (JCF)

• Gus Harrison Correctional Facility (ARF)

• Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility (ICF)

• Kinross Correctional Facility (KCF)

• Lakeland Correctional Facility (LCF)

• Marquette Branch Prison (MBP)

• Macomb Correctional Facility (MRF)

• Michigan Reformatory (RMI)

• Mound Correctional Facility (NRF)

• Newberry Correctional Facility (NCF)

• Oaks Correctional Facility (ECF)

• Ojibway Correctional Facility (OCF)

• Parnall Correctional Facility (SMT)

• Pugsley Correctional Facility (MPF)

• Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility (MTU)

• Ryan Correctional Facility (RRF)

• Saginaw Correctional Facility (SRF)

• Special Alternative Incarceration Facility (SAI)

• St. Louis Correctional Facility (SLF)

• Thumb Correctional Facility (TCF)

• West Shoreline Correctional Facility (MTF)

• Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV)

• Woodland Center Correctional Facility (WCC)

Field Operations Administration

The Field Operations Administration (FOA) is responsible for state probation and parole supervision as well as other methods of supervision.

Operations Support Administration

The Operations Support Administration is responsible for oversight of departmental finances, personnel services - including training and recruitment of new employees, policy development, labor relations, and physical plant and environmental services.

New Horizons

In 2004, the department initiated a prisoner re-entry act, with the intent of re-integrating prisoners into society so that they may lead a life free of crime. Offenders who have participated in the program are showing a 30% decline in the rate at whcich they return to prison. Michigan is a national model in prisoner re-entry and has seen at decline of over 7,000 prisoners since May 2007, saving the State of Michigan over $700 million dollars in operational costs.

Prison rules

On February 1, 2009, MDOC banned tobacco possession in all MDOC facilities. MDOC prisons removed their designated smoking areas, and staff members are now required to keep tobacco products in their locked vehicles.

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Michigan Department of Corrections, 13 officers/employees have died in the line of duty.

In addition to the corrections officers killed, other prison employees have been murdered while at work. For instance, Tammy Sperle, a storekeeper was killed while working at the Huron Valley Men's Correctional Facility.

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