Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Wakefield supports OCF for UP prisoner housing

By P.J. GLISSON

[email protected]

WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield city council voted Monday in favor of a resolution supporting the continued operation of Marenisco's Ojibway Correctional Facility as "a housing unit for Upper Peninsula prison inmates."

The unanimous vote for Resolution No. 245 took place with no discussion after mayor John Granato read aloud its eight parts to an audience-filled room.

Michigan's Department of Corrections announced in August its plans to close OCF as of Dec. 1, but the resolution states the facility has been among the "most efficiently operated" MDOC prison...