{"id":6074,"date":"2022-01-05T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:43:53","slug":"irwin-requests-hearing-on-prison-conditions-at-womens-huron-valley-correctional-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2022\/01\/05\/irwin-requests-hearing-on-prison-conditions-at-womens-huron-valley-correctional-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Irwin Requests Hearing on Prison Conditions at Women\u2019s Huron Valley Correctional Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Jan. 5, 2022) \u2014 Today, Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) sent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/Huron-Valley-Letter-to-Sen.-McBroom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;to Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Ed McBroom<\/strong>&nbsp;(R-Vulcan), the chair of the Senate Oversight Committee, requesting a hearing on allegations of extreme staffing shortages and deteriorating prison conditions at the Women\u2019s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Irwin received communications that allege Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) personnel are being forced to work overtime and carry out mandatory 24-hour shifts, and individual officers are being left alone to carry out various responsibilities that require two or more people for safety and accountability reasons. Also alleged is that inmates\u2019 yard time, visitation, and time out of their cells are being greatly reduced or simply not happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cState employees deserve good working conditions and support, and inmates deserve to be treated humanely \u2014 period,\u201d Sen. Irwin said. \u201cMDOC needs to answer these allegations, which is why I\u2019ve requested this hearing. I know that Sen. McBroom agrees that proper oversight of prisons is important, and I look forward to working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox47news.com\/neighborhoods\/jackson-hillsdale\/michigan-prisons-facing-labor-shortage-with-800-open-corrections-officer-positions-statewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2021<\/a>, the MDOC reported that there were about 800 total corrections officer vacancies across the state. Michigan corrections facilities have been facing staffing shortages and hiring issues since as early as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/families-community\/2018-06-20\/staffing-shortage-creates-stressful-dangerous-environment-for-michigan-corrections-officers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018<\/a>. These staffing issues were one of the reasons that the Michigan Corrections Organization, a union which represents about 6,000 corrections officers around the state, submitted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2020\/08\/27\/michigan-corrections-department-director-heidi-washington\/5645203002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vote of no confidence<\/a>&nbsp;in Director Washington in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec. 29, 2021, Sen. Ed McBroom\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/01\/MDOC-Oversight-December-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0to the MDOC Director Heidi Washington informing her that the Senate Oversight Committee will be conducting a \u201chearing on staff shortages and assaults\u201d in January 2022. This hearing is in response to reports of worsening staffing shortages and an increase of violence against corrections officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Jan. 5, 2022) \u2014 Today, Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) sent a&nbsp;letter&nbsp;to Sen.&nbsp;Ed McBroom&nbsp;(R-Vulcan), the chair of the Senate Oversight Committee, requesting a hearing on allegations of extreme staffing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Irwin Requests Hearing on Prison Conditions at Women\u2019s Huron Valley Correctional Facility - Senator Jeff Irwin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2022\/01\/05\/irwin-requests-hearing-on-prison-conditions-at-womens-huron-valley-correctional-facility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Irwin Requests Hearing on Prison Conditions at Women\u2019s Huron Valley Correctional Facility\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ANN ARBOR, Mich. 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