Alger Correctional Facility

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Alger Correctional Facility (LMF)
Coordinates 46°22′44″N86°38′10″W / 46.37896°N 86.63614°W / 46.37896; -86.63614 Coordinates: 46°22′44″N86°38′10″W / 46.37896°N 86.63614°W / 46.37896; -86.63614
StatusOpen
Security classLevels II & IV
Opened1990 (1990)
Managed by Michigan Department of Corrections
Director Warden Catherine S. Bauman
Street addressN6141 Industrial Park Drive
City Munising
County Alger County, Michigan
State Michigan
ZIP Code49862
Country United States
Website Official website Blue pencil.svg

Alger Correctional Facility (LMF) is a Michigan prison for adult men, operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. It is located in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Alger County, on the south side of Munising.

Michigan State of the United States of America

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.

Prison place in which people legally are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, remand center, or internment facility is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed.

Michigan 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 under its supervision. The agency has its headquarters in Grandview Plaza in Lansing.

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Facility

The prison was opened in 1990 and has six housing units currently used for Michigan Department of Corrections male prisoners 18 years of age and older. Four of the housing units are used by the general prison population, and two are used for segregating inmates from the general prison population. Onsite facilities provide for foodservice, health care, facility maintenance, storage, and prison administration. [1]

Food service or catering industry defines those businesses, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal prepared outside the home. This industry includes restaurants, school and hospital cafeterias, catering operations, and many other formats.

Health care Prevention of disease and promotion of wellbeing

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals in allied health fields. Physicians and physician associates are a part of these health professionals. Dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, audiology, pharmacy, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other health professions are all part of health care. It includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

In August 2018, in conjunction with prison strikes elsewhere in the country, prisoners within the correctional facility began a boycott against the company Globaltel. The prisoners cited abuse of private funds and exploitation as their reasons for boycotting the prison's largest communications partner. [ citation needed ]

Security

The facility is surrounded by double fences with razor-ribbon wire and gun towers. Electronic detection systems and patrol vehicles are also utilized to maintain perimeter security. [1]

Until June 2009, the facility housed maximum security prisoners, but was refitted to house lower security Level IV prisoners following the closing of Standish Maximum Correctional Facility. [2] [3]

Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) was a Michigan Department of Corrections maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan. The men's prison was located on the south side of M-61. It was once considered as a potential site for housing detainees to be relocated from the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Services

The facility offers libraries, barbering, education programs, substance-abuse treatment, psychotherapy, and religious services. Onsite medical and dental care is supplemented by local community providers, the Brooks Medical Center at Marquette Branch Prison and the Duane L. Waters Hospital in Jackson, Michigan. [1]

Library Organized collection of resources

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library's collection can include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. Libraries range in size from a few shelves of books to several million items. In Latin and Greek, the idea of a bookcase is represented by Bibliotheca and Bibliothēkē : derivatives of these mean library in many modern languages, e.g. French bibliothèque.

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Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin or amphetamines. The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and cease substance abuse to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Alger Correctional Facility (LMF)". michigan.gov. Michigan Department of Corrections. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  2. ↑ Pepin, John (March 30, 2010). "Corrections officers assaulted at Alger prison". The Mining Journal. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
  3. ↑ "Alger County Correctional Facility officers picket". Upper Michigan's Source. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
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