Muskegon Prison Among Corrections Cuts

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) - The Muskegon Correctional Facility is among three state prisons and five state prison camps set to close later this year, the Michigan Department of Corrections announced Friday. The moves are expected to cut $120 million from the 2009-2010 state budget at a time when Michigan's prison population is declining, a corrections spokesman told 24 Hour News 8.

Muskegon Correctional -- a security level 2 facility on a scale with 5 as the maximum -- houses 1,326 prisoners, according to the corrections department, and employs 264, according to the corrections union. The affected facilities are expected to close sometime between August and November.

The other prisons set to close are the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility north of Bay City and the Hiawatha Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, in the eastern Upper Peninsula. All five of the state's prison camps -- Shingleton, Painesdale and Iron River in the U.P.; Grayling in the northern Lower Peninsula and White Lake in Oakland County -- are closing.

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[mg5679]

The inmates in prison should have picked college instead of breaking the law.

[pathfinderdaddy]

Yeah! Finally closing prisons.

The jerkoff in the pink shirt is worried,

"It certainly is a sad day for us in Muskegon"

Translated:

Please protect us from the people we have fucked over from coming and taking just revenge.I'm a banker and I have legally stolen people's money, livelihoods, homes.

Protect me from them illegally retaliating, by assaulting me, or robbing me.Keep these people in jail, I'll pay you $800/ month as a guard.

Not a sad day for those in jail for bullshit reasons.