Houghton County Work Camp Overview
Houghton County Work Camp is operated by the Houghton County Sheriff's Office. The official address is 60595 W. Airport Park Blvd., Calumet, MI 49913, and the phone number is 906-482-1742. The Sheriff's Office describes the Work Camp as a county facility located on county-owned property in the Houghton County Memorial Airport area.
This is not the main secure booking jail. A person arrested in Houghton County normally goes first through the Houghton County Corrections Facility and the court process. The Work Camp is for selected county inmates who can work in the community after sentencing or placement approval. Its role is closer to minimum-security county work-camp custody than to a state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention center.
The distinction matters for records. A family member trying to find someone from a very recent arrest should start with the Corrections Facility at 906-482-0055, not the Work Camp. A person already sentenced in a local case may be at the Work Camp if the Sheriff's Office and court process have made that placement. For court sentence information, use MiCOURT. For a later state-prison transfer, use MDOC OTIS.
Houghton County Work Camp Capacity
The Sheriff's Work Camp page lists capacity as 26 inmates. The research did not locate a daily population number, average population, demographic breakdown, eligibility table, or current crew count. Because the Work Camp is a different custody level from the downtown jail, its capacity should not be described as additional secure jail beds without that context.
Houghton County's local detention system is split between the 28-bed Corrections Facility and this 26-inmate Work Camp. Counted together, those two official sheriff capacity statements equal 54 local custody slots, but that figure should be used carefully because the facilities serve different populations and security levels. The Work Camp is for selected sentenced inmates, not a public first stop for every arrestee.
Search Houghton County Work Camp Custody
No separate public Work Camp roster was located in the official material. The Sheriff's Work Camp page describes the facility and public-service work, but it does not publish a searchable inmate list, visiting list, daily crew list, released-inmate tab, or booking-photo gallery. That makes confirmation by phone the main route for Work Camp custody.
- Call Houghton County Work Camp at 906-482-1742 for a Work Camp-specific question, or call the Sheriff's Office and Corrections Facility at 906-482-0055 if the person's custody stage is unclear.
- Give the full legal name, date of birth if known, court case number if available, and the approximate sentencing or arrest date.
- Ask whether the person is at the Work Camp, the Corrections Facility, another county jail, MDOC, federal custody, ICE custody, or has been released.
- Search MiCOURT Case Search for sentence and case status after formal court records are filed.
- Search MDOC OTIS only if the person has been sentenced to state prison or is under MDOC supervision.
VINELink may also help with custody notifications where Michigan and Houghton County data are available. It is not a substitute for the Work Camp phone line when the question is a current local housing assignment. The Houghton County Sheriff MI mobile app exists, and local reporting said prisoner-lookup style functions were expected, but the research did not verify an app-only Work Camp roster.
Houghton County Work Camp Source
The official Houghton County Sheriff's Work Camp page is the source for the Work Camp's capacity, airport-area location, public-service work, and equipment description.
The screenshot is specific to this facility because it shows the county's own Work Camp information rather than a generic jail roster or state corrections page.
Houghton County Work Camp Contact
Use the Work Camp phone number for facility-specific questions, but use the main jail or Sheriff's Office when the person may still be in intake, awaiting court, or housed at the Corrections Facility. The Sheriff's Office operates both facilities, and Michigan law places county jail custody under the sheriff. A Work Camp assignment is a custody placement within that county system, not a separate state corrections sentence.
Houghton County Work Camp
60595 W. Airport Park Blvd.
Calumet, MI 49913
906-482-1742
County work-camp / work-release style facility for selected sentenced inmates.
Houghton County Corrections Facility
403 E. Houghton Ave.
Houghton, MI 49931
906-482-0055
Main county jail and first contact for recent arrests.
The Sheriff's public office contact hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., while the Corrections Facility is staffed 24 hours per day. The Work Camp page does not publish separate lobby hours, so confirm before going to the airport-area property.
Houghton County Work Program
The strongest local detail for this facility is the public-service work description. The Sheriff's Office says Work Camp inmates clean trash, assist at community events, help at the Houghton County Fair, work on parks, maintain county properties, and work in county cemeteries. The page also says the facility uses a 15-passenger van and trailer to transport inmate workers and equipment.
| Work Area | Officially Described Work |
|---|---|
| Trash cleanup | Work crews clean trash in county areas. |
| Community events | Inmates assist with community-event tasks. |
| County fair | Work Camp labor may help at the Houghton County Fair. |
| Parks and properties | Crews maintain parks and county property. |
| Cemeteries | Inmates perform work in county cemeteries. |
Those details should not be stretched into claims about job training, wages, education programs, release dates, or eligibility rules. The research did not locate a published eligibility manual, court referral form, disciplinary policy, or crew schedule. The only supported description is a county-run public-service work-camp program for selected inmates.
Houghton County Work Camp Visits
The Work Camp page does not publish a separate social visitation schedule, mail format, money rule, commissary policy, phone vendor, or remote-video vendor. Because of that gap, do not assume the Sunday jail visitation schedule automatically applies at the Work Camp. The safest instruction is to call the Work Camp or Sheriff's Office before sending mail, sending money, setting a video visit, or driving to Calumet.
| Topic | Published Work Camp Rule | Practical Route |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | No separate Work Camp schedule located. | Confirm by phone before travel. |
| No separate Work Camp mail format located. | Ask whether mail must use the jail address or Work Camp address. | |
| Money / commissary | No separate Work Camp account rule located. | Use sheriff confirmation before payment. |
| Phone / video | No separate Work Camp vendor rule located. | Ask whether jail ICS and HomeWAV rules apply. |
For comparison, the Corrections Facility page lists Sunday in-person visitation for male and female inmates, HomeWAV video visitation, collect calls through Inmate Calling Solutions, and cash or money order deposits for inmate accounts. Those details are documented for the jail page. They should be treated only as a baseline to confirm for the Work Camp.
Houghton County Work Camp Mail
Mail and money rules are the area where Work Camp users need the most caution. The Sheriff's corrections page gives a mail address and account rules for the main jail, but the Work Camp page does not say whether Work Camp mail should go to the Calumet address, the Houghton jail address, or a specific inmate-account process. Do not send cash, personal checks, books, packages, or photos before confirming the current rule.
| Service | What the Research Located | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| Work Camp mail | No separate published mail format located. | Call 906-482-1742 before mailing. |
| Work Camp money | No separate published deposit rule located. | Ask whether the main jail account process applies. |
| Commissary | No Work Camp commissary schedule located. | Confirm with sheriff staff. |
| Phone / video | No Work Camp-specific vendor rule located. | Ask whether ICS or HomeWAV applies. |
The main jail rules say cash or money order can be used for account deposits, money orders can be mailed, personal checks are not accepted, and commissary funds must be in the inmate account before 8:00 a.m. Monday. Those are useful background facts, but Work Camp-specific confirmation is still needed.
Houghton County Work Camp Placement
Work Camp placement is not the same as booking. Booking is the intake process after arrest, and it normally happens at Houghton County Corrections Facility. The Work Camp population is made up of selected county inmates who can work in the community. A person usually reaches that stage only after court action and a local custody decision.
A practical custody flow is: arrest, jail booking, first court appearance, bond or release decision, case progress in MiCOURT, sentence if convicted, then possible Work Camp placement if eligible. If the sentence is to state prison, the person leaves the county system and should be searched through MDOC OTIS. If the case is federal or immigration-related, BOP, U.S. Marshals, or ICE systems may be the correct route depending on custody stage.
Note: Confirm Work Camp custody, visits, mail, and money by phone because no separate public Work Camp roster or rule sheet was located.
Houghton County Work Camp Context
The Work Camp's location near the county airport makes it easy to confuse with the main jail if the address is not checked. The Corrections Facility is in downtown Houghton at 403 E. Houghton Ave. The Work Camp is in Calumet at 60595 W. Airport Park Blvd. Visitors, attorneys, and family members should confirm the correct facility before driving, especially during Houghton County winter conditions or when crossing the broader Keweenaw area.
No MDOC prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons institution, or ICE detention center was located in Houghton County during the research. That means the Work Camp remains a county facility. It does not replace Houghton County Corrections Facility for recent arrests, and it does not replace OTIS for state prison custody. For a broader local custody path, use the Houghton County jail inmate records page along with sheriff phone contact.