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A UP Prison, has lost it’s appeal. Gogebic County’s Ojibway Prison, has lost it’s appeal to re-open.
The Appeals Court upheld the lower courts decision, that Marinesco County, failed to prove the state would have closed a different prison, based on economic impact.
The prison, employed 230 people, and will have a huge negative impact, on the community.
The State’s prison population has fallen from a high of 51,000 in 2007, to less than 39,000 today, which prompted the state to close several prisons, throughout the state in recent years.
