Standish Maximum Correctional Facility News

Liz Cheney's organization Keep America Safe today released a mini-documentary featuring citizens of Standish, Michigan lashing out at the Obama administration's proposal to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the town's Standish Maximum Correctional Facility.

State Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, asked other elected officials to join him in saying "No" to bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the U.S. Bishop issued a letter to President Barack Obama saying that there was more risk than reward when it came to moving the detainees to the U.S. "Any economic benefit is far outweighed by the ...

Closed for more than two weeks now, city officials are anxiously waiting to learn the fate of the Standish prison.

Michigan continues to be in the running to house Guantanamo Bay detainees, despite plans for federal officials to tour a nearly empty prison in rural Illinois today.

Local officials in Standish, a small town 100 miles north of Detroit where the Obama administration was considering moving Guantanamo Bay detainees, had mixed feelings Sunday over news that the White House is now leaning toward an Illinois state prison instead.

School buses were expected to roll today for students in Mt. Clemens Community Schools and other students from Lutheran High Northwest in Rochester Hills and Lakeview Public Schools in St.

Officials from Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections are set to visit the now-closed Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Arenac County and one other Michigan prison next week.

Top prison officials from Pennsylvania's corrections department have scheduled a two-day visit to Michigan next week to review the suitability of a pair of closed state prisons for housing of the Keystone State's excess population.

A $14 million sorting facility for FedEx Express is opening at Flint's Bishop International Airport.

Everybody is advised to be ready for full-blown winter weather immediately. Wool products made in Michigan Standish Max is now closed By Kim Russell Sunday, November 01, 2009 at 12:33 AM The Standish Maximum Correctional Facility officially closed Saturday, after months of protest.

The Standish Maximum Correctional Facility officially closed Saturday, after months of protest.

Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 5:24 p.m. In less than 24 hours kids around northern Michigan will be out trick or treating and that means safety should be kept in mind.

It's a sad day for some Mid-Michigan workers as the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility prepares to close its doors, perhaps for good.

Michigan voters are evenly divided about whether they want the state's next governor to be a Democrat or Republican, but negative perceptions about the performance of Gov.

It's two p.m. on a workday, and the casino parking lot is completely full. Hundreds of people have come for the $20 gambling coupons offered to those willing to donate blood.

The City Council doesn't want terrorist suspects now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to come to this northeast Michigan town, voting on that sentiment Monday but not fully ruling out the possibility.

Critics of a proposal to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility made their case before a largely sympathetic audience in suburban Detroit.

Flu vaccine shortage Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM Many companies that administer the seasonal flu vaccine are running out in Marquette County.

On Monday, they rallied in Rochester. They testified in Lansing on Tuesday. On Wednesday, they brought it back to where it all started.

In an effort to keep their options open to federal prisoners and detainees, Standish City Council wrote a resolution in support of bringing them to Standish Maximum Correctional Facility.