Federal Correctional Institution, Milan

Infobox_Company
company_name = Federal Correctional Institution, Milan|100px
company_
company_type = Federal Prison
key_people = C. "Ike" Eichenlaub, Warden
foundation = 1933
location = Milan, Michigan
(P.O. Box 9999 Milan, MI 48160)
homepage = [http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/mil/index.jsp] The Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI Milan) is a U.S. federal prison in Milan, Michigan, in Washtenaw County.

This prison is a low-security facility for male inmates. Its adjacent Federal Detention Center hols pretrial and holdover inmates. The institution sits on approximately convert|332|acre|km2 and consists of 59 buildings with a total gross floor area of convert|504200|sqft|m2.

History

FCI Milan was activated on April 6, 1933 as a Federal Detention Farm and has undergone mission changes throughout its history and was a co-correctional facility from 1933 to 1939, has housed offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act of 1950, and was once a medium security institution.

Some famous female inmates housed at Milan during its time as a co-correctional institution include Katherine Kelly, the wife of George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Helen Gillis, the wife of Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis, Evelyn Frechette, the companion of John Dillinger, and Margaret Waley, an accomplice in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping.

The only legal federal execution in the State of Michigan occurred on July 8, 1938 when Anthony Chebatoris was hanged for the murder of Henry Porter, a truck driver from Bay City that mistook a police officer, during a bank robbery.

Inmate programs

FCI Milan offers a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), which offers inmates completing its 500-hour residential program a 12-month sentence reduction and six months in a halfway house.

The Life Connections Program (LCP) is an 18-month residential voluntary multi-faith restorative justice program which is offered in five BOP facilities across the country. The program is designed to reduce recidivism and bring reconciliation to victim, community and inmate through through personal transformation using the participant's faith commitment.

FCI Milan offers a unique program in federal prisons in conjunction with Milan High School where inmates can earn a high school diploma.

External links

* [http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/mil/index.jsp Official profile] from the Federal Bureau of Prisons