The Ionia Correctional Facility (ICF), also known as "I-Max" after its maximum security housing units, is a U.S. state
prison located in
Ionia
Ionia () was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day Izmir. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionian ...
,
Michigan.
The prison was opened in 1987 and consists of five maximum security level V housing units and two medium security level II housing units. It is one of four maximum security men's prison facilities in Michigan, along with
Marquette Branch Prison
The Marquette Branch Prison (MBP) is located in Marquette, Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. The prison, which opened in 1889, is a facility of the Michigan Department of Corrections that holds about 1,100 inmates in maximum and minimu ...
in
Marquette,
Alger Correctional Facility in
Munising
Munising ( ') is a city in Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,355 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Alger County. The city is partially surrounded by Munising Township, but the two are administered auton ...
, and
Baraga Correctional Facility in
Baraga. (The
Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in
Standish was a fifth maximum security men's prison until its closure in 2009 eliminating 604 Level V security beds.) Although the Ionia Correctional Facility was once the state's only
supermax prison, Michigan downgraded the facility from a level VI (or supermax) to a level V maximum security prison in 2004.
Three of the level V housing units are designated 'general population'. The remaining two are used for administrative segregation (a unit in which prisoners are confined to their cells for breaking prison rules), temporary segregation, detention, and secure outpatient treatment. The level II facility consists of a 280-bed building separated into two units. Level II prisoners have access to a variety of recreational activities and are allowed to work in the prison and for Michigan State Industries, a factory that employs low-risk prisoners.
[Department of Correction]
Ionia Correctional Facility
Region 2 - Ionia County
See also
*
List of Michigan state prisons
References
External links
Ionia Correctional Facility
Prisons in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Ionia County, Michigan
1987 establishments in Michigan
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