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Woodland Center Prison Overview

MDOC's Woodland Center Correctional Facility page identifies Woodland Center as a Michigan Department of Corrections facility in Livingston County. Warden Paul Schreiber is listed as the warden. The facility opened in 2009 and serves sentenced MDOC prisoners, not county jail detainees. Its mission is distinct from the Livingston County Jail because Woodland Center houses a specialized prison population that includes inpatient mental-health care, crisis stabilization, medical services, dialysis support, and a smaller group of general-population prisoners who work inside the facility.

The official MDOC facility page is the source for Woodland Center's location, capacity, security levels, public email, phone number, programs, and facility role. The screenshot below comes from that MDOC page and shows the facility information used for Woodland Center lookup context.

Use the MDOC page for facility-specific contact details, and use OTIS for prisoner-location records. The county jail roster is not the right search path for a Woodland Center prisoner.

Woodland Center Prison Capacity

MDOC lists Woodland Center Correctional Facility with a prisoner capacity of 468 and 396 employees. The security designation is Level I, II, and IV. Research also describes Woodland Center as an adult male facility, with limited special circumstances for people age 17 or younger who are housed separately. Its prison population includes MDOC's Inpatient Mental Health and Crisis Stabilization Program, an infirmary and clinic, a Level II dialysis housing unit, and a Level I housing unit.

Woodland is counted within the state prison system, not within the Livingston County Jail population. MDOC reported a statewide prison population of 32,778 incarcerated individuals at the end of calendar year 2024. That statewide number is a prison-system figure and should not be mixed with county jail capacity, local bookings, or the Livingston County Jail's annual intake volume.

Woodland Center Inmate Lookup

Use MDOC OTIS for Woodland Center Correctional Facility inmate lookup. OTIS is the statewide Offender Tracking Information System. It covers prisoners, parolees, probationers, escapees, absconders, and discharged offenders within the time period described by MDOC. It does not contain county jail inmates, city lockup inmates, people sentenced only to jail, or people arrested and convicted but not yet sentenced to MDOC. That is why a Livingston County Jail booking can require a jail phone call or MiCOURT search, while a Woodland Center placement requires OTIS.

The OTIS About page says a last name or offender number is required. An offender number is the most precise search key. A last-name search can use an asterisk after at least three leading letters, and an age search covers three years above and below the age entered. Search results should be checked for status and location. A current Woodland Center prisoner should show a location tied to Woodland Center or its MDOC facility code.

1. Open OTIS and choose a name search or offender-number search.
2. Enter the offender number if known, or enter the last name and optional first name.
3. Use status, age, sex, race, or marks and tattoos only when needed to narrow common names.
4. Open the matching profile and review the status, location, offense, sentence, and supervision fields.
5. If the person is still in county custody after a Livingston County arrest, check Livingston County Jail and MiCOURT instead.

Woodland Center Contact

Woodland Center's public contact information comes from MDOC rather than Livingston County. General questions and visiting applications route to the facility email. The published phone number reaches the prison, not the county jail, and should be used for facility-specific rules, visiting application questions, and general prison contact questions. OTIS remains the official lookup path for prisoner status and location.

Woodland Center Visiting Rules

Woodland Center is a state prison, so visiting is governed by MDOC prison rules and facility instructions rather than the Livingston County Jail video-visit schedule. The research identifies mdoc-woodland-public@michigan.gov as the route for general questions and visiting applications. A visitor should confirm approval status, schedule, identification rules, dress code, allowed items, and any medical or security limits directly with the facility before traveling.

The research file did not locate a day-by-day Woodland Center visiting-hours table. The safest published approach is to treat visiting as an application and facility-scheduling process. Prison visiting can change because of housing status, clinical placement, count, staffing, discipline, lockdown, or health restrictions.

Woodland Center Mail and Phone

Mail, phone, and money questions for Woodland Center should follow MDOC statewide rules and facility instructions. The research specifically identifies GTL/ViaPath as the MDOC prison phone vendor. Prisoners maintain a Personal Allowed Numbers list of 20 numbers, and the list can be reset quarterly. Friends and family can set up AdvancePay through ConnectNetwork or by calling 855-466-2832.

MDOC listed prisoner phone rates effective October 1, 2023, at $0.0735 per minute before taxes and fees. The Livingston County jail vendors, including ICSolutions jail phone service, GettingOut jail tablet messaging, Access Corrections jail deposits, and jail lobby kiosk deposits, are not the default Woodland Center prison channels. Use the prison's MDOC instructions when sending money, requesting mail rules, or setting up phone access for a Woodland prisoner.

Woodland Center Prison Admission

A person does not enter Woodland Center through a new street-arrest booking in the way a county jail inmate enters Livingston County Jail. A Livingston criminal case may begin with arrest and booking at the county jail, then move through 53rd District Court and, for bound-over felony cases, 44th Circuit Court. After conviction and a prison sentence, the person enters MDOC custody through state intake and classification. OTIS should become the lookup source after the person is under MDOC supervision.

Classification means the state reviews custody level, medical needs, mental-health needs, program needs, sentence information, and placement factors. Woodland Center's role makes that especially important. The facility houses MDOC inpatient mental-health and crisis-stabilization services, an infirmary, clinic care, dialysis housing, and general-population workers. A placement at Woodland Center may reflect medical, mental-health, security, or work-assignment factors rather than a simple county-of-conviction link.

Woodland Center Prison Programs

Woodland Center has an unusually specialized program profile. Research describes the Inpatient Mental Health and Crisis Stabilization Program, with three levels of care: Crisis Stabilization Program, Acute Care, and Rehabilitative Treatment Services. Prisoners move through those care levels as clinically indicated, with the goal of discharge to a lower level of mental-health care when appropriate. The facility also has a 23-bed infirmary for inpatient mental-health and health care needs, including inpatient dialysis.

Program offerings listed in the research include Phase I Substance Abuse Education, Phase II Substance Abuse Outpatient, Advanced Substance Abuse Treatment, Violence Prevention Program, Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention, Blood Borne Pathogens, Prisoner Observation Aid, Live-In Aide, AA, Thinking for a Change, ACT WorkKeys, psychoeducational groups, self-esteem, social skills, relaxation therapy, anger management, symptom management, dual diagnosis, ADL training, coping skills, creative arts, current events, discharge planning, recreation therapy, stress management, Woodland Journal, and pet therapy.

The facility also houses about 100 general-population prisoners who work as porters, food service workers, maintenance workers, warehouse workers, clerks, and observation aides. Those jobs support the prison's daily operation while keeping Woodland Center's main identity tied to MDOC mental-health, medical, crisis, and infirmary functions.

Woodland Center and Other Custody

Woodland Center is not the right place to search for every person arrested in Livingston County. A pretrial detainee or local sentenced jail inmate belongs in the county jail lookup chain. A federal prisoner belongs in the BOP inmate locator once in Bureau of Prisons custody. An immigration detainee belongs in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. Research found no BOP prison or ICE detention facility in Livingston County.

Michigan VINE may help with custody or case notifications, but VINE should be paired with the correct agency system. Use OTIS for MDOC prisoners, the jail phone and public-records process for Livingston County Jail custody, BOP for federal prison custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. Mixing those systems is a common cause of missed results.