{"id":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-006","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan (Governor; Michigan Department of Corrections; county jails); State level","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"MCL 30.403; MCL 10.31","instrument":"Executive Order 2020-29 (COVID-19)","title":"Temporary COVID-19 protocols for entry into Michigan Department of Corrections facilities and transfers to and from Department custody; temporary recommended COVID-19 protocols and enhanced early-release authorization for county jails","dateIssued":"2020-03-29","effective":"2020-03-29 (immediately)","end":"2020-04-26 at 11:59 p.m. by its terms; re-issued as EO 2020-62 (Apr. 26, 2020), EO 2020-119 (June 9, 2020), EO 2020-146 (July 2020) and EO 2020-170 (Aug. 2020) until the Michigan Supreme Court\u0027s decision of Oct. 2, 2020 in In re Certified Questions; MDHHS then carried prison requirements in its epidemic orders (see Ex. MI-077, June 25, 2021)","startDate":"2020-03-29","endDate":"2020-04-26","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["EMP","HC","GATH","OTHER"],"addressees":["Michigan Department of Corrections","all persons entering MDOC facilities including staff, vendors and any other person","county jails and sheriffs (transfers; jail overcrowding act suspended)"],"clause":"1. The Michigan Department of Corrections (the \u0027Department\u0027) must continue to implement risk reduction protocols to address COVID-19... which include the following: (a) Screening all persons arriving at or departing from a facility, including staff, incarcerated persons, vendors, and any other person entering the facility... Such screening includes a temperature reading and obtaining information about travel... (b) Restricting all visits, except for attorney-related visits, and conducting those visits without physical contact to the extent feasible. (c) Limiting off-site appointments for incarcerated persons to only appointments for urgent or emergency medical treatment.... (k) Practicing social distancing in all programs and classrooms... (l) Minimizing crowding, including interactions of groups of 10 or more people... 2. To mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spreading in county jails, strict compliance with the capacity and procedural requirements regarding county jail overcrowding states of emergency in the County Jail Overcrowding Act... is temporarily suspended.","enforcement":"MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3): willful violation of an emergency order is a misdemeanor (recited in the Governor\u0027s COVID-19 orders)","functions":["EMP screening of every vendor and contractor at the door of 29 State prisons","CB visitors and volunteer programs excluded","OP off-site medical and program appointments limited","SC county-jail transfers and the vendors serving both systems"],"notes":"Section 4 (per the Legislature\u0027s HTML text) suspended \u0027all transfers into the Department\u0027s custody\u0027 until jails demonstrated compliance with the risk-reduction protocols. Reached food-service (Trinity), health-care (Corizon/Wellpath) and commissary vendors; the volunteer and religious-program sector; construction contractors on prison grounds.","sourceUrl":"http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-29.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200417052755/https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-29.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":262075,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","url":"/library/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-006","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-006","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-29 (COVID-19) (Mar. 29, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-006)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["MI-077","AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-096","AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-097"]}