Federal Officials Plan to Visit Closed Michigan Prison
Good news coming from officials in the state of Michigan on Monday. The struggling economical state has encouraging progress with efforts within the state trying to reopen the Standish Michigan state prison for use as a federal facility again.
Reports are for a planned tour to take place in Standish during the week of August 16 with Federal prison officials. During the visit of the prison meetings are expected to take place with local officials.
The Standish state prison is located approximately 145 miles of Detroit and due to buget cuts required by the state, the prison was forced to close last year. The facility has a capacity limit for about 600 prison inmates.
Early there was hope for consideration as a holding facility for 229 al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighter suspects that are currently being held in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention camp location.
Now there is hope the Michigan prison site may possibly be a solution to help reduce the federdal prison overcrowding problem.
U.S. Bureau of Prison officials had taken a tour of the Standish prison once before. Spokeswoman Traci Billingsley with the Bureau of Prisons said Monday there is no timeframe for establishing a final decision on anything yet.
“We are in the exploratory phase right now” she said.
The word of another visit does give some hope that a possible agreement may become possible at a future date
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