MICHIGAN INSTITUTIONS
Reading edition
There are no convicts in Michigan except men who have escaped or who have been discharged from institutions in other states. The Michigan State Prison at Jackson houses inmates. The same is true of the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia and the State House of Correction at Marquette. Industrial schools, homes, hospitals and a state public school have succeeded reform schools in Michigan. The humanizing movement has led the state to declare that persons detained in such institutions shall be designated pupils, patients or inmates. There are no prisoners in Michigan juvenile institutions.
The practice of printing the prison record of a man arrested in connection with the commission of a crime but not convicted of that crime is discouraged on The News. Often, former inmates of prisons, striving to lead decent lives, are brought in by the police on suspicion. To print their names may be to injure them needlessly without imparting valuable information to our readers.
The correct names of state institutions as given in the Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual (the red book) are:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing.
State Normal College, Ypsilanti.
Central Michigan Normal School, Mt. Pleasant.
Northern State Normal School, Marquette.
Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo.
Michigan College of Mines, Houghton.
Michigan School for the Deaf, Flint.
Michigan School for the Blind, Lansing.
Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind, Saginaw.
State Public School, Coldwater.
Industrial School for Boys, Lansing.
Industrial Home for Girls, Adrian.
Michigan Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids.
State Psychopathic Hospital, Ann Arbor.
Kalamazoo State Hospital.
Pontiac State Hospital.
Traverse City State Hospital.
Newberry State Hospital.
Michigan Home and Training School, Lapeer.
Michigan Farm Colony for Epileptics, Wahjamega.
Ionia State Hospital.
Michigan State Prison, Jackson.
State House of Correction, Marquette.
Michigan Reformatory, Ionia.
Detroit House of Correction.
State Sanitorium, Howell.