CORRECTIONS - Michigan offenders, perform a wide variety of tasks

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Michigan offenders
perform a wide variety of tasks

By providing offenders with the opportunity to give something back to Michigan's taxpayers, the MDOC ensures that needed work gets done and a sense of justice is restored to everyone involved. Michigan offenders perform a wide variety of tasks, including:

Cleaning up state parks
Maintaining hiking trails
Raking leaves, mowing grass and cleaning up cemeteries
Washing police cars
Painting and repairing houses for Habitat for Humanity
Planting flowers in city and county parks
Cleaning up vacant city lots to reduce crime
Preparing and maintaining snowmobile and horse riding trails
Restoring bridges in recreation areas
Cleaning up and improving county fair grounds

The offenders are carefully screened to minimize risk to the public.

An average work crew consists of eight to 10 offenders. State corrections officers supervise prisoners while they work unless approval to provide supervision has been granted by a warden and an official for the agency such as Michigan State Police or a municipal police department.