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Executive Order 2020-29 (COVID-19)

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

Governor Gretchen Whitmer · Michigan (Governor; Michigan Department of Corrections; county jails); State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Michigan (Governor; Michigan Department of Corrections; county jails); State level · Michigan
Level
State
Authority
MCL 30.403; MCL 10.31
Issued
2020-03-29 Mar. 29, 2020
Effective
2020-03-29 (immediately) (read as 2020-03-29)
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's 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) (read as 2020-04-26)
In force
Mar. 29, 2020 to Apr. 26, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Gathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesOther
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)
Functions reached
  • 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
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

1. The Michigan Department of Corrections (the 'Department') 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's COVID-19 orders)

Notes

Section 4 (per the Legislature's HTML text) suspended 'all transfers into the Department's custody' 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.

Retrieval note

HTML text: https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/htm/2020-EO-29.htm.

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