• MDOC to Close Two Facilities The Michigan Department of Corrections will close Deerfield Correctional Facility in Ionia and Camp Branch in Coldwater effective April 1, 2009. These closures are part of a $26 million mid-year reduction in funding in the Corrections budget that is part of an Executive Order identifying $140 million in cuts in the FY 2008-2009 State budget.
• Our Goal The goal of the Michigan Department
of Corrections is to provide the greatest amount of public protection while
making the most efficient use of the State's resources. It meets its goal by ensuring that the state's
judges and other criminal justice administrators have the broadest possible
array of viable sentencing and sanctioning options, and by ensuring that
appropriate supervision is maintained so that Michigan's neighborhoods,
families and citizens can be protected.