Pugsley Correctional Facility (MPF) is a Michigan minimum security prison operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections Correctional Facilities Administration (CFA), located between Kingsley, Michigan and Fife Lake southeast of Traverse City in Grand Traverse County. Pugsley Correctional Facility sits on ; within that area, are enclosed by two fences to create a secure perimeter that houses 1,342 adult male prisoners. The facility has minimum security prisoner public works and gate pass assignments. A security vehicle patrols the property manned by an armed Corrections Officer twenty-four hours per day. In May 2016, Michigan Department of Corrections announced Pugsley would close in September of the same year as a result of declining prison population within the state. History Pugsley Correctional Facility was named after Earl C. Pugsley, (1885–1976) of Hart, Michigan in Oceana County. He was a Republican; an Attorney; a Circuit Court Judge in the Michigan's 27th Circuit, from 1930–1959; and candidate for Justice of State of Michigan Supreme Court], in 1942. Pugsley Correctional Facility was originally opened as "Camp Pugsley" a prison camp in 1956 as a part of the Corrections Conservation Prison Camp Program and housed [minimum security adult male prisoners. The purpose of the Corrections Conservation Prison Camp Program was two-fold. Various conservation projects under the direction of the Conservation Department (now the Michigan Department of Natural Resources or DNR) needed to be manned and prisoners provided an inexpensive and reliable source of labor. On October 1, 1997, Camp Pugsley was placed under the jurisdiction of the Oaks Correctional Facility located in Eastlake, Michigan. The Corrections Conservation Prison Camp Program, which had its headquarters in Grass Lake, Michigan, was officially disbanded. Camp Pugsley was expanded with the construction of an administration building (containing administrative offices for the prison; a secure control center; weapons arsenal; visiting room; and Health Care Unit); six prisoner housing units, with 24 open-bay living cubicles per unit to accommodate 144 prisoners; prisoner programs building (containing prisoner classification, psychological services, general library, and law library; General Education Development, Business Education & Building Trades classrooms; and a prisoner barber shop), and food service building. The original camp building was converted to house 150 [prisoners in an open-bay barracks-style housing unit. The camp was converted to a Secure Level I prison and opened in January 2001 with a population of 1,014 prisoners administered by Warden Ray Wolfe. In the summer of 2005, the six new housing