Joe Kegans Intermediate Sanctions Facility is an Intermediate Sanctions facility of the

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located along the northeast edge of

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.Hanson, Eric.
Halfway house for inmates opens downtown / Nonviolent offenders to prepare for freedom
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''. Wednesday October 15, 1997. A29 MetFront. Retrieved on May 10, 2010. The approximately facility for men is located south of

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. The detention facility building that Kegans uses first opened in February 1995 as a place to house nonviolent offenders in order to relieve

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. The unit closed after four months of use because not enough inmates had been put there to justify the additional expenses. The building had been unoccupied for two years before it re-opened in 1997. The building was formally dedicated at 10 A.M. on Wednesday October 15, 1997. As of 1997 all prisoners at the unit are convicted of parole violations such as non-violent property crimes. The unit was named after Joe Kegans, a state district judge who died in 1997 at 69 years of age. The Kegans Jail, along with the

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. October 2000. Retrieved on July 2, 2010.

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