The state prison's history included a five-day riot by 2,600 inmates and prisoner Dale Remling escaping from the facility by helicopter in 1975. Cell Block 7 shut down prison operations in 2007.

Heyns spoke of embracing Jackson's history, not shunning it, during media day at the Cell Block 7 Prison Museum at the State Prison of Southern Michigan on Cooper Street on Monday, June 23.

Jackson’s Ella Sharp Museum operates Cell Block 7 for the state. It fits well with the museum’s mission of presenting both art and history, said Erik Lyman, museum communications coordinator.

Cell Block 7 is a partnership between the Michigan Department of Corrections and the museum. The cost of keeping the building operational was too high for MDOC, and the Ella Sharp Museum decided ...

Cell Block 7 is the biggest prison block in the Jackson prison complex. Standing five stories high, it could hold 500 prisoners. The Michigan Department of Corrections is glad the building is ...

JACKSON, Mich. (WOOD) — As Cell Block 7, a prison museum in Jackson, announces its permanent closing at the end of the year, Executive Director Diane Gutenkauf reflects on the unique opportunity ...

Cell Block 7, just one piece of a sprawling complex that once reigned as the world’s largest walled prison, was decommissioned in 2007. The shuttered facility took on new life as a museum in 2014.

JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) -The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that her office has negotiated ...

The Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History partnered with the Michigan Department of Corrections to create the prison museum within the 7 Block portion of the prison that closed in 2007.

The State Prison of Southern Michigan was hard to manage so it was broken into several facilities in 1988. The hulking cell block, which has 515 cells, was an immediate hit. Business blossomed ...

JACKSON COUNTY, MI – A Michigan Department of Corrections Officer accused of smuggling drugs into the prison that employs him near Jackson has taken a plea offer. Joshua Michael Evans pleaded ...