McNeil Island Corrections Center explained

McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC)
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Location:McNeil Island
Coordinates:47.1967°N -122.6578°W
Status:Closed
Classification:Medium
Capacity:853
Closed:2011
Former Name:McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
County:Pierce County
State:Washington
Postcode:P.O. Box 88900
Zip:98388
Country:United States

The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) was a prison in the northwest United States, operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections. It was on McNeil Island in Puget Sound in unincorporated Pierce County,[1] near Steilacoom, Washington.[2]

Opened in 1875, it had previously served as a territorial correctional facility and then a Americans sentenced to terms of imprisonment by the United States courts that operated in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries served their terms at McNeil Island.[3] In the 1910s, inmates included Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", who fatally stabbed a prison guard in March 1916.

During World War II, eighty-five Japanese Americans who had resisted the draft to protest their wartime confinement, including civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi, were sentenced to prison terms at McNeil; all were pardoned by President Harry S. Truman in 1947.[4] and novelist James Fogle was sent to McNeil at the age of 17

The State of Washington began to lease the facility from the federal government in 1981,[5] and later that year the state department of corrections began moving prisoners into the facility, renamed "McNeil Island Corrections Center." The island was deeded to the state government in 1984.[6]

In November 2010, the department announced its plans to close the penitentiary by 2011, saving $14 million in the process.[7]

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  1. Web site: 2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Pierce County, WA. U.S. Census Bureau. 2022-08-15. 11, 19 (PDF p. 12, 20/114). McNeil Island Corrections Ctr.
  2. "Mailing Requirements ". Washington State Department of Corrections. Retrieved on April 1, 2011. "McNeil Island Corrections Center P.O. Box 88100 Steilacoom, WA 98388-0900"
  3. Peters, E.W. (2011). Shanghai Policeman. Earnshaw Books: Hong Kong. p. 118. .
  4. Web site: McNeil Island Penitentiary (detention facility) . Densho Encyclopedia . August 6, 2014.
  5. News: McNeil Island . Lewiston Morning Tribune . (Idaho) . (Los Angeles Times) . October 13, 1979 . 2A .
  6. Web site: McNeil Island Corrections Center History. https://web.archive.org/web/20100702002352/http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/prison/micc/mcneilhistory.asp . 2010-07-02 . . April 2, 2011.
  7. Sullivan, Jennifer; Clarridge, Christine "McNeil Island prison to close next year". The Seattle Times (November 20, 2010). Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  8. ‘Ex-Sheriff Rainey: He’s Haunted by the Past’; The Boston Globe, September 22, 1974, p. 280
  9. Web site: Who's who of McNeil Island prisoners. Sean . Robinson . March 28, 2011 . Bellingham Herald.
  10. Book: Homewood Police Department . John Norman records from Homewood PD . 2019-01-11 . English.

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