Travel is a good way to open new vistas to our world. My recent excursion to the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan provided just such an opportunity.

While it may have been a busman’s holiday of sorts given the many Pennsylvania prisons and jails I have visited over the years, it did open my eyes to many new and different ways to manage a prison population. In February 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shipped 1,000 prisoners to Michigan and another 1,000 to Virginia because of severe overcrowding.

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