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| MDOC restricts access to day rooms at women’s prison |
| By livingstondaily.com- Paul Egan |
| Published: 12/18/2015 |
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LANSING – Michigan’s only women’s prison began limiting inmate access to prison day rooms this week in response to intense competition for space in the rooms, but a Corrections Department spokesman denied Wednesday the policy change is related to an overcrowding problem. Several inmates and their family members complained to the Free Press this week that due to overcrowding, inmates at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti were placed on “21-hour lockdowns,” beginning Monday. Department spokesman Chris Gautz confirmed that access to the day rooms — which contain grooming areas, kiosks with links to e-mail and prisoner stores, microwave ovens, hot plates, ironing boards and other amenities — is now limited to three hours per prisoner, per day. But Gautz denied inmates are restricted to their cells when they are not in the day rooms. Read More. |
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