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Deerfield Correctional Facility's Housing Unit A after the last 33 of 1,200 prisoners were transported out of the closing prison in Ionia, MI, Friday, March 20, 2009. Each bay area was originally designed to sleep four prisoners, but, actually housed seven. All employees have been absorbed into the four other prisons in the town. The prisoners were transferred to West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon, MI.

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Deerfield Correctional Facility's Housing Unit A after the last 33 of 1,200 prisoners were transported out of the closing prison in Ionia, MI, Friday, March 20, 2009. Each bay area was originally designed to sleep four prisoners, but, actually housed seven. All employees have been absorbed into the four other prisons in the town. The prisoners were transferred to West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon, MI.