Pugsley Correctional Facility
Pugsley Correctional Facility (MPF) is a Michigan minimum security prison operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections Correctional Facilities Administration (CFA), located between Kingsley, Michigan and Fife Lake southeast of Traverse City in Grand Traverse County. Pugsley Correctional Facility sits on ; within that area, are enclosed by two fences to create a secure perimeter that houses 1,342 adult male prisoners. The facility has minimum security prisoner public works and gate pass assignments. A security vehicle patrols the property manned by an armed Corrections Officer twenty-four hours per day. In May 2016, Michigan Department of Corrections announced Pugsley would close in September of the same year as a result of declining prison population within the state. History Pugsley Correctional Facility was named after Earl C. Pugsley, (1885–1976) of Hart, Michigan in Oceana County. He was a Republican; an Attorney; a Circuit Court Judge in the Michigan's 27th Circuit, from 1930 to 1959; and candidate for Justice of State of Michigan Supreme Court], in 1942. Pugsley Correctional Facility was originally opened as "Camp Pugsley" a prison camp in 1956 as a part of the Corrections Conservation Prison Camp Program and housed [minimum security adult male prisoners. The purpose of the Corrections