- My name is Connie Horton and I'm the warden
at Chippewa Correctional Facility.
We are located in the eastern end
of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
We currently have right around 2,300 prisoners here.
It's a multi-level facility.
We have Level II, Level IV,
and administrative segregation prisoners here
as well as a unsecured Level I.
Our director Heidi Washington for the Michigan Department
of Corrections partnered with the National Guard
to do a mass COVID testing across the UP
at all of our facilities.
By partnering with the National Guard,
we have this opportunity to test every prisoner
here within our population,
and like I said there's over 2,300 men here,
so this is a huge undertaking.
With the assistance of the National Guard,
we're able to accomplish this.
We wouldn't be able to do that without the help
of the National Guard, we're very fortunate
to have the National Guard here and very blessed.