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A jail at Michigan Central Station is Detroit’s dumbest idea
By detroit.curbed.com - Robin Runyan
Published: 09/02/2016

A couple weeks ago, we posted about the idea that the failed jail location and courts could be moved to an area behind Michigan Central Station, which was brought up in the Detroit News by Nolan Finley. Finley said this in his column:

"I can’t say for sure how serious the idea is. But I heard the same thing from several people last week: Discussions are underway with the county, city of Detroit and Matty Moroun, the billionaire owner of the Central Depot, as well as the rail companies that own part of the site, to replace the partially completed jail on Gratiot in downtown Detroit with a new facility behind Central Depot."

The Detroit Free Press just ran an article discussing the state of the fail jail, as it's seeing its third winter. It goes into the possibility of courts at Michigan Central Station in greater detail.

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