ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
For the first in more than a year, Michigan prisoners will be able to receive visitors although they ll have a plexiglass shield between them starting March 20, state corrections officials announced Friday.
The Michigan Department of Corrections on March 13, 2020, suspended in-person visits at its facilities because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Visits will resume with two-hour time limits, and no physical contact will be allowed. We recognize how important in-person visitation is to our prison population,” MDOC director Heidi Washington said in a release Friday. “With the continuation of vaccines and cases within the MDOC on a steady decline, the department is prepared to provide in-person visits without jeopardizing the safety and well-being of our inmates and staff.”