G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility

The G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan, owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections.^[1]

This facility dates from 1985. Cotton, which is an inmate educational facility, is one portion of the former Michigan State Prison, described as the largest walled prison in the world as late as 1981, when it was rocked by extensive, damaging riots. ^[2] The prison was divided in 1988 into smaller institutions. As of 2016, Cotton and three other components remain open:

• the Parnall Correctional Facility, a minimum security prison
• the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center, an intake and processing facility for all male state prisoners
• the Cooper Street Correctional Facility, a discharge and processing facility

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Coordinates: 42°17′18″N 84°23′16″W / 42.288383°N 84.387717°W / 42.288383; -84.387717

Michigan Department of Corrections prisons

Alger Correctional Facility Baraga Correctional Facility Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility Carson City Correctional Facility Central Michigan Correctional Facility Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center Chippewa Correctional Facility Cooper Street Correctional Facility Detroit Detention Center Detroit Reentry Center Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility Gus Harrison Correctional Facility Ionia Correctional Facility Kinross Correctional Facility Lakeland Correctional Facility Macomb Correctional Facility Marquette Branch Prison Michigan Reformatory Muskegon Correctional Facility Newberry Correctional Facility Oaks Correctional Facility Ojibway Correctional Facility Parnall Correctional Facility Pugsley Correctional Facility Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility Saginaw Correctional Facility Special Alternative Incarceration Facility St. Louis Correctional Facility Thumb Correctional Facility West Shoreline Correctional Facility Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility Woodland Center Correctional Facility