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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 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.
Department of Corrections. 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 ...
The Marquette Branch Prison ( MBP) is located in Marquette, Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. The prison, which opened in 1889, is a facility of the Michigan Department of Corrections that holds about 1,100 inmates in maximum and minimum-security housing. The inmate population consists of adult males, aged eighteen and older. [2]
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" (Triquarterly, Spring 1969) "The Wheel of Love" (Esquire, October 1967) "Four Summers" (Yale Review, Spring 1967) "Demons" (Southern Review, Winter 1970) "Bodies" (Harper's Bazaar, February 1970) "Boy and Girl" (Prism International, Spring 1969)
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; the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility where prisoners can finish their general education; the Charles Egeler ...
December 27, 1884. (1884-12-27) (aged 47) Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, U.S. Emma Amelia Hall (February 28, 1837 – December 27, 1884) was an American prison reformer and administrator. [1] [2] [3] In July 1881, she became the first superintendent of Michigan's Girls Training School at Adrian, Michigan and eventually was the first woman ...
Detroit Detention Center (DDC) / 42.42333°N 83.04389°W / 42.42333; -83.04389. 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. [1]