Florence Crane Correctional Facility

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Florence Crane Correctional Facility (ACF)
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Coordinates 41°57′30″N84°59′32″W / 41.95825°N 84.99234°W / 41.95825; -84.99234 Coordinates: 41°57′30″N84°59′32″W / 41.95825°N 84.99234°W / 41.95825; -84.99234
StatusClosed
Security classSecure Level I
OpenedApril 1985 (1985-04)
ClosedJune 1, 2011 (2011-06-01)
Managed by Michigan Department of Corrections
Street address38 Fourth Street
City Coldwater
County Branch
State Michigan
ZIP Code49036
Country United States
Website Official website Blue pencil.svg

Florence Crane Correctional Facility (ACF) was a Michigan prison, located in Coldwater, for adult male prisoners.

Michigan U.S. state in the United States

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, correctional center, or remand center, 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.

Coldwater, Michigan City in Michigan, United States

Coldwater is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,945. It is the county seat of Branch County, located in the center of the southern border of Michigan.

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History

The prison was opened in April 1985, after the facility was taken over from the Coldwater Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities and renovated. [1] A new housing unit and food service building were opened in March 2000. [2]

The prison was closed on June 1, 2011, [1] and in 2019 several buildings were torn down. [3]

Facility

The prison had housing units used for Michigan Department of Corrections male prisoners 18 years of age and older. The facility also included a food service building. [2] It was adjacent to the Lakeland Correctional Facility.

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.

The Lakeland Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Security

The facility is surrounded by double fences with razor-ribbon wire. Electronic detection systems and patrol vehicles are also utilized to maintain perimeter security. [2]

Services

The facility offered education programs, a library, religious services, substance-abuse treatment, psychological services. Medical and dental care were provided by the Bureau of Health Care Services and supplemented by local hospitals. [2]

Library Organized collection of books or other information resources

A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location 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 widely in size up to millions of 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.

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 cannabis, 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.

Prisoners were also able to participate in vocational educational opportunities by working at the facility's food service, maintenance, and library operations. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Announcement of the Closing of Florence Crane Correctional Facility". michigan.gov (Press release). State of Michigan. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Florence Crane Correctional Facility (ACF) Closed". michigan.gov. Michigan Department of Corrections. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  3. ↑ Reid, Don (August 6, 2019). "Old 'State Home' buildings come down". The Daily Report. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
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