Additional housing units opened since then to accommodate more prisoners.

Pennsylvania had a contract with Michigan to house state prisoners in MCF, in order to alleviate overcrowding in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

The John S. Hausman of the Muskegon Chronicle said that the Pennsylvania contract was expected to be about four or five years long.

Beginning in late April 2011, one group of about 240 prisoners was moved out of MCF each week.

Most employees of MCF accepted vacant positions in the prison system or took jobs that were held by other prison system employees with less seniority.