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| PA Prison Back In Control |
| By mlive.com |
| Published: 10/20/2010 |
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Eight months after 1,150 Pennsylvania prison inmates rolled into Muskegon Correctional Facility, the prison is quiet. That wasn’t true four weeks ago. In two unrelated bursts of violence that popped up on three out of four consecutive days in late September, several prisoners and corrections officers were hurt. Some were treated at local hospitals and released, although none had to be admitted. The outcome: new restrictions on the inmates’ movements that have increased staff control of the population; a doubling of the number of “segregation” units to lock up misbehaving prisoners; and clear disagreements about the situation at the prison between the warden and the union that represents MCF’s officers. To union officials, including some who work inside the Muskegon prison, the Pennsylvania inmates are “a different breed”: tougher, harder to control than their Michigan counterparts and — in some cases — wrongly classified as medium security, creating a sometimes dangerous situation. Read More. |
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