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Warden Terry Wilkins
13924 Wadaga Road
Baraga, MI 49908-9204
Directions (Bing Maps)
General questions and visiting applications: mdoc-baraga-public@michigan.gov
Telephone: 906-275-5100
Open: 1993
Gender/Age Limit: Males, 18 and older
Security Levels:I and V
Prisoner Capacity:704
Number of Employees: 310
There are seven units inside the secure perimeter of the facility, which house Level I, Level V, and Administrative Segregation prisoners in designated units. Capacity for the facility is 868 prisoners. Other buildings house food service, healthcare, prisoner services, maintenance, warehouse, and administration.
Education programs include Adult Basic Education, General Education Development, Employment Readiness and a variety of intuitive courses that are tablet based. Treatment services include, counseling, substance-abuse services, psychotherapy, religious activities, Thinking For a Change, Batterers Intervention, and violence prevention programs. Leisure time activities consist of general library, law library, gym and weights. Prisoners are provided on-site routine medical and dental care. Serious and emergency problems are treated via local community providers, the Brooks Medical Center at Marquette Branch Prison and at the Duane L. Waters Health Care in Jackson.
Double chain-link fences, interior non-lethal electronic stun fence, electronic and microwave detection system, razor-ribbon wire, camera monitoring and an alert response patrol vehicle make up the perimeter security.