Federal Correctional Institution, Milan

The Federal Correctional Institution, Milan is a U.S. federal prison in York Charter Township, Michigan, near Milan. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.This prison is a low-security facility for male inmates. Its adjacent Federal Detention Center houses pretrial and holdover inmates. The institution sits on approximately 332acre and consists of 59 buildings with a total gross floor area of 504200sqft.The facility is 45mi southwest of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, 15mi south of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 30mi north of Toledo, Ohio.HistoryFCI Milan was activated on April 6, 1933, as a "Federal Detention Farm" and has undergone mission changes throughout its history. FCI Milan held female inmates from 1933 to 1939, housed offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act of 1950, and was once a medium-security institution. The only federal execution in Michigan occurred on July 8, 1938, when Anthony Chebatoris was hanged for the murder of Henry Porter, a truck driver from Bay City, whom Chebatoris mistook for a police officer during a bank robbery.Helen Gillis and Evelyn Frechette, the wives of notorious bank robbers Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger, served one-year sentences at FCI Milan in the mid-1930s after being convicted of aiding their husbands as they evaded authorities.