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| How Lansing can reduce crowding at state’s lone women’s prison |
| By bridgemi.com- Nancy Derringer |
| Published: 03/29/2016 |
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In March, the population at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the state’s only women’s prison, stood at 2,287, an increase of more than 400 inmates in five years. The prison, in Ypsilanti, is so full that offices and common rooms have had to be repurposed as inmate housing. A new unit opened last December, adding 85 beds to the facility, but prisoners are still feeling the squeeze, legal advocates say. “Complaints have gone up,” said Natalie Holbrook of the American Friends Service Committee, a nonprofit that advocates for incarcerated people. Women may not be able to get daily showers or time out of their cells because of the crowded conditions. They may wait in long lines for meals or medication. A former warden even rationed toilet paper and sanitary napkins for budgetary reasons. (A spokesman said inmates are issued more if they have a need.) Read More. |
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