Carson City Correctional Facility (DRF)
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Montcalm County
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TELEPHONE: (989) 584-3941 OPENED: 1989 AGE LIMIT: Males, 18 and older SECURITY LEVELS: I, II and IV |
General The Carson City Correctional Facility consists of sixteen housing units; one Level I unit with 120 beds and eight Level I units with 1,280 beds, three Level II units with 720 beds; two Level IV units with 384 beds, and a 22-bed temporary segregation unit. All units, except temporary segregation, are double bunked. Programming Academic programming is available to assist prisoners in preparing for GED completion. Prisoners who have already attained their GED also have the opportunity to obtain training in food technology. Routine work assignments are available to prisoners. Available programs consist of Michigan sex offender programming (MSOP), Thinking for a Change (T4C), Violence Prevention programming (VPP), Batterer Intervention program (Bridges), and Phase II substance abuse programming. Prisoners are provided on-site routine medical, dental and Outpatient Mental Health care. Serious problems are treated at the department's Duane L. Waters Health Care in Jackson and emergencies are referred to a local hospital. Security The facility is surrounded by three fences with rolls of razor wire on the side and top of the outside fence. The fence area is also monitored by a series of electronic devices and the perimeter is patrolled by armed staff. Security was further enhanced in 1997 by the addition of two gun towers. |