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Baraga Correctional Facility is a state prison located in Baraga County, Michigan. Rated capacity: 868. Reported population: 787. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Baraga Correctional Facility (AMF) is a Michigan prison, located in Baraga, for adult male prisoners. While it includes a Level I security facility, it is primarily a maximum security prison.
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Capacity
868
Current population
787
Occupancy
91%
Year opened
1993
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1993
Region
Michigan
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
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This facility scores 7. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 5 points above national average.
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hands, palms forward and pressed against the window in my cell door, before I’m released for Sunday morning yard. This is one of many protocols that maximum-security prisoners at Baraga Correctional Facility in Michigan have to follow in order to receive our privileges. But this is all about to change for me. It starts with a COVID-19 test. “Buckley, you gotta get swabbed,” says the C.O. on the
hugging her, but I could see her burying her face into an empty space. She was crying, “Please come home. Please come home. Please come home.” I woke up in my single-man cell at Baraga Correctional Facility soaked with sweat. I had a teary face and a throbbing heart. I called my closest friends, my mother and my grandma and pleaded with them to create a comfortable environment for my daughter
ges on your tablet, laptop or phone without line breaks and drafts. Suddenly, your writing makes no sense. I was devastated, because writing is one of very few freedoms I have at Baraga Correctional Facility in Michigan. Writing is how I make sense of the muddiness within myself and this environment, and I love the ritual of honing my work on the tablet and sharing it with other writers. It’s
being a father. I wonder if it’s possible to be a reliable parent behind the wall of a Level 5 maximum security facility. Staying in contact is one of the biggest challenges. At Baraga Correctional Facility in Michigan — where I am serving 20 years — 40 men have one hour to use six phones. At any time, six phones can become four because two of them are often broken. Each conversation has a
he’s part of the administration.” S egregation time — otherwise known as “the hole,” “the bean,” “the box,” “seg” or “vacy” — is the hardest time to do. I've been in the box at Baraga Correctional Facility, a Level V maximum security prison, for 10 months. I started my sentence here, but I had made it to St. Louis Correctional Facility, which is one security level lower. A fight with another
thing. His voice breaks back in. “Yeah, you ain’t beating that ticket, though,” he says. “Nigga can’t even look out his window no more.” Demetrius Buckley, 34, is incarcerated at Baraga Correctional Facility in Baraga, Michigan, where he is serving a 20- to 32-year sentence for second-degree murder and felony possession of firearms. In an email to The Marshall Project, a Michigan Department of
s for a weapons charge. In an emailed statement, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) confirmed that the author was involved in a fight in July 2014 at Baraga Correctional Facility that broadly meets the description in this essay. However, the DOC had no report of stabbings during the altercation, and the spokesperson said there were no suicides around this time at the
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World Prisons. (2026). Baraga Correctional Facility. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/baraga-correctional-facility
"Baraga Correctional Facility." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/baraga-correctional-facility.
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