Mound Correctional Facility

Mound Correctional Facility was a Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison located in eastern Detroit, Michigan. It was adjacent to the Detroit Reentry Center (formerly the Ryan Correctional Facility). The facility which housed Mound was reopened in August 2013 as the Detroit Detention Center.HistoryMound opened in 1994. It was on land previously used by DaimlerChrysler AG for storing automobiles.Prior to January 8, 2012, Mound had 324.4 positions for employees, with most employees being prison guards and others being administrative employees, administrative support employees, program staff, counselors, and food service workers. As of 2011 300 employees worked at Mound.MDOC closed Mound on January 8, 2012. The planned closure was announced in 2011 as part of a budget balancing plan. The state projected that the closure could lead to a $50 million annual savings. Democrat party members and representatives of unions in the Michigan State Legislature criticized the proposed closing. They said, as paraphrased by The Detroit Free Press, that "Closing the Mound prison is a betrayal of assurances the governor made earlier to keep it open". MDOC officials said that as the prison population decreased, the prison was expensive to operate. Kurt Weiss, a budget spokesperson said that the state did not want to close Mound but that they were unable to make a cost-cutting agreement so there was no other choice but to close the prison.