Ryan Correctional Facility
| Coordinates | 42°25′31″N 83°03′43″W / 42.42528°N 83.06194°WCoordinates: 42°25′31″N 83°03′43″W / 42.42528°N 83.06194°W |
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| Status | Open |
| Security class | Level II |
| Opened | 1991 |
| Managed by | Michigan Department of Corrections |
| Warden | Ken Romanowski |
| Street address | 17600 Ryan Road |
| City | Detroit |
| County | Wayne County, Michigan |
| State | Michigan |
| ZIP Code | 48212 |
| Country | United States |
| Website | Official website |
Detroit Reentry Center (RRF), previously the Ryan Correctional Facility, is a prison of the Michigan Department of Corrections located in eastern Detroit, Michigan. It is adjacent to the Detroit Detention Center.
It opened in 1991 as the Ryan Correctional Facility. The area was previously used by DaimlerChrysler to store automobiles.
An escape from Ryan occurred on August 21, 1994, with ten prisoners escaping. Nine prisoners were recaptured and according to authorities one died of a drug overdose. On Monday August 29, 1994 a group of about 500 area residents held a meeting in the W.L. Bonner Cultural Center about the prison, and the residents decided that they needed to have the prison closed. The residents said that, prior to the prison's construction, the state had said that "harden" and "violent" criminals would not be held in that facility. On November 5, 1994, about sixteen members of the Krainz Woods Neighborhood Organization, including at least eight elderly people, demonstrated in front of the Ryan Correctional Facility, saying that the state did not implement promised measures, improving neighborhood lighting, hiring employees from the neighborhood, and implementing a grant to pay for security doors on the houses of the residents.
In March 1995 a dialysis unit opened.
In May 2012 the Michigan Department of Corrections announced a plan to convert the Ryan facility from a regular prison to a parole violator facility and to close the former parole office near Caro and to move the parole office inside the Ryan facility. The state said that Ryan had an early operation cost of $35.4 million as a regular corrections facility but would cost $23 million to operate per year as a re-entry center. The state announced that the Detroit Parole Office would relocate to be inside the Ryan facility and that the Tuscola Residential Re-entry program previously located in Caro would be relocated to Detroit. In May 2012 the prison had 365 employees; the change would reduce the number to 157, because the parole office would house prisoners with fewer security requirements. The state planned to send 1,000 prisoners to a prison that is re-opening in Muskegon, the Muskegon Correctional Facility. Russ Marlan, a spokesperson for MDOC, said that the main reason for the move was to increase space for parole violators to Detroit so that, in case of a violation, the state would not have to release them anyway or to transport them to Jackson. Detroit at the time had over half of the 20,000 parolees in the state correctional system.
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