Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/
October 3 through October 7, 2016
On September 10, over 400 prisoners protested peacefully at Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, following the September 9 nationwide prison workers' strike. While details are still emerging, we know that prisoners met with the wardens to peacefully communicate their demands. These demands included better wages, better quality and quantity of food, and no retaliation for the peaceful protest. Yet about 150 prisoners were accused of being instigators and were transferred to other facilities. In at least some cases, they were accused of "incite to riot" and placed in higher-security levels and disciplinary isolation.
Please call Michigan Department of Corrections director Heidi Washington as well as some of the facilities where prisoners formerly at Kinross may be facing punishment (see numbers and script below). Call every day this week: Monday, October 3, through Friday, October 7.
After calling, please let us know what happened by either commenting on the Facebook event for the phone zap (https://www.facebook.com/ events/520841798114661/) or sending an email to miprisonabolition@riseup.net.
Here is a detailed "how-to" video for calling prisons, if you feel nervous about phoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MDOC Director Heidi Washington: 517-241-7238 (if there's no answer, leave a message on her assistant's phone, Sandra Simon)
MDOC facilities with levels IV and V, where Kinross prisoners may have been transferred (ask for the office of the warden or deputy warden):
Alger Correctional Facility (LMF)
SECURITY LEVELS: IV and II
TELEPHONE: (906) 387-5000
Warden: Catherine S. Bauman
Baraga Correctional Facility (AMF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I and V
TELEPHONE: (906) 353-7070
Warden: Shane Place
Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility (IBC)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV; Protective Housing and Administrative Segregation
TELEPHONE: (616) 527-2510
Warden: Tony Trierweiler
Carson City Correctional Facility (DRF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (989) 584-3941
Warden: Sherman Campbell
Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (906) 495-2275
Warden: Jeffrey Woods
Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility (LRF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (231) 773-9200
Warden: Shane Jackson
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (JCF)
SECURITY LEVEL: I, Secure Levels I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (517) 780-5000
Warden: Shawn Brewer
Gus Harrison Correctional Facility (ARF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (517) 265-3900
Warden: Paul Klee
Ionia Correctional Facility (ICF)
SECURITY LEVELS: II and V
TELEPHONE: (616) 527-6331
Warden: Willie Smith
Kinross Correctional Facility (KCF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I and II
TELEPHONE: (906) 495-2282
Warden: Duncan MacLaren
Macomb Correctional Facility (MRF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (586) 749-4900
Warden: Randall Haas
Marquette Branch Prison (MBP)
SECURITY LEVELS: I and V
TELEPHONE: (906) 226-6531
Warden: Robert Napel
Michigan Reformatory (RMI)
SECURITY LEVELS: II and IV
TELEPHONE: 616-527-2500
Warden: Carmen Palmer
Oaks Correctional Facility (ECF)
SECURITY LEVELS: II and IV
TELEPHONE: (231) 723-8272
Warden: Thomas Mackie
Saginaw Correctional Facility (SRF)
SECURITY LEVELS: I, II, and IV
TELEPHONE: (989) 695-9880
Warden: Thomas Winn
St. Louis Correctional Facility (SLF)
SECURITY LEVEL: IV
TELEPHONE: (989) 681-6444
Warden: Mark McCluuick
Woodland Center Correctional Facility (WCC)
SECURITY LEVEL: IV
TELEPHONE: (734) 449-3320
Warden: Jodi DeAngelo-Kipp