| Type | Federal Prison |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1933 |
| Headquarters | York Charter Township, Michigan (P.O. Box 9999 Milan, MI 48160) |
| Key people | Christopher Zych, Warden |
| Website | [1] |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI Milan) is a U.S. federal prison in York Charter Township, Michigan, near Milan.[1][2][3]
This prison is a low-security facility for male inmates. Its adjacent Federal Detention Center houses pretrial and holdover inmates.[4] The institution sits on approximately 332 acres (1.34 km2) and consists of 59 buildings with a total gross floor area of 504,200 square feet (46,840 m2).
The facility is 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, 15 miles (24 km) south of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 30 miles (48 km) north of Toledo, Ohio.[4]
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FCI Milan was activated on April 6, 1933, as a Federal Detention Farm and has undergone mission changes throughout its history. FCI Milan was a co-correctional facility from 1933 to 1939, has housed offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act of 1950, and was once a medium security institution.
Some famous female inmates housed at Milan during its time as a co-correctional institution include Katherine Kelly, the wife of George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Helen Gillis, the wife of Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis, Evelyn Frechette, the companion of John Dillinger, and Margaret Waley, an accomplice in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping.
The only legal federal execution in the State of Michigan occurred on July 8, 1938, when Anthony Chebatoris was hanged for the murder of Henry Porter, a truck driver from Bay City who was mistaken for a police officer during a bank robbery.[5]
After the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 25, 2009, the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was placed into FCI Milan.[6][7]
FCI Milan offers a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), which offers inmates completing its 500-hour residential program up to a 12-month sentence reduction and up to six months in a halfway house. However, due to overcrowding, and very strict guidelines for participation, many inmates receive a substantial lesser amount of sentence reduction, and less time in a half-way house.
The Life Connections Program (LCP) is an 18-month residential voluntary multi-faith restorative justice program which is offered in five BOP facilities across the country. The program is designed to reduce recidivism and bring reconciliation to victim, community and inmate through personal transformation using the participant's faith commitment.
FCI Milan offers a unique program in federal prisons in conjunction with Milan High School where inmates can earn a high school diploma, the only federal prison which has a high school diploma program.[8]
The 300-acre (120 ha) FCI Milan, with about 1,500 prisoners, is 15 miles (24 km) south of Ann Arbor. FCI milan has basketball courts, horseshoe pits, a softball field, and tennis courts.[9]
On July 8, 1938, Anthony Chebatoris, under a federal death sentence for national bank robbery, was executed by hanging at FCI Milan.[10]
