Published In
Ann Arbor News, November 23, 1967
Caption
Jail may not be the most pleasant place to be on Thanksgiving but at least a touch of the holiday is reaching the 65 prisoners behind bars at 119 W. Ann St. today. Above, Mrs. Douglas J. Harvey, food supervisor at the jail, watches while a prisoner trusty cuts up chickens for the Thanksgiving meal.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, November 23, 1967
Caption
Jail may not be the most pleasant place to be on Thanksgiving but at least a touch of the holiday is reaching the 65 prisoners behind bars at 119 W. Ann St. today. Below, Mrs. Harvey serves the meal to two trusties who, like other prisoners, dined on chicken, potatoes, vegetables and cranberry sauce. Each inmate received more than half a chicken for his meal.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, February 22, 1937
Caption
Behind The Bars For Being Ill - In jails throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan are many persons who are there not because they are guilty of crime, but because they have been stricken with mental disease. Although they have been legally committed to a state mental institution for the special hospital treatment and care their illness demands, they are kept in jail for indefinite periods because the hospitals are so overloaded they cannot be taken in. Meanwhile they are robbed of some of their chances for relief or recovery. More than 1,000 sick minds now wait outside the overcrowded hospitals to which they have been assigned. Not all are in jail, many being kept at home or allowed to roam about with possible latent danger to themselves or to others. Not all jails are so "pleasant" as the one pictured above, which is new and modern.