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MI DOC – G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (JCF) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 517-780-5000
This facility is for adult inmates.
The inmates housed at Cotton Correctional located at 3500 N Elm Rd in Jackson, MI are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility is a mixed custody state prison facility housing about 2,000 level I, secure level I, level II and level IV adult male inmates operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections is located on 114 acres in Jackson MI. Inmates are secured by three twelve foot fences covered in razor wire, armed guard towers, acoustic and electronic motion sensing detection systems, surveillance cameras and vehicle patrols. Inmates are housed in several different types of buildings from pole barns to mortar brick and steel, the security level determines the building. Offenders can take adult basic education classes and earn a GED. Vocational programs provide training in the culinary arts, and general maintenance. The prison is a combination of pole barns, which have weatherized buildings, sealed concrete flooring and plaster-board walls, and other buildings that are brick, mortar, steel and glass.
Michigan State Prison or Jackson State Prison, which opened in 1839, was the first prison in Michigan. After 150 years, the prison was divided, starting in 1988, into four distinct prisons, still in Jackson along with the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility, the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center which is the common point of processing for all-male state prisoners sentenced to any Michigan prison; the Cooper Street Correctional Facility which is the common point of processing for all-male state prisoners sentenced to any Michigan prison; and the Parnall Correctional Facility which is the common point for processing of all-male state prisoners about to discharge, parole, or enter a community center or the camp program.
Security – Security includes three 12-foot fences, rolls of razor-ribbon wire, two perimeter towers, an acoustic sensing system and an electronic detection system. A patrol road surrounds the perimeter of the facility, and a vehicle responds to all detection system alarms. Surveillance camera systems are located throughout the facility.
visitation Info
Michigan DOC – G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility (FCF) – Visitation
Visiting Hours
Monday, Thursday and Friday are 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Weekend visits are according to an odd/even schedule, based on the last digit of the prisoner's number.
If the number ends in an odd digit that prisoner may have visitation only on the odd dated weekend day.
