[4] A security vehicle patrols the property manned by an armed Corrections Officer twenty-four hours per day.

In May 2016, Michigan Department of Corrections announced Pugsley would close in September of the same year as a result of declining prison population within the state.

On October 1, 1997, Camp Pugsley was placed under the jurisdiction of the Oaks Correctional Facility located in Eastlake, Michigan.

The Corrections Conservation Prison Camp Program, which had its headquarters in Grass Lake, Michigan, was officially disbanded.

On May 31, 2016, Michigan Department of Corrections announced intentions to close Pugsley during the following fiscal year.

[9] Pugsley Correctional Facility provides the following prisoner programs: General Education Development;[10] Business Education and Building Trades classes; a pre-release program; substance abuse treatment]; Alcoholics Anonymous & Narcotics Anonymous; Assaultive and Sex Offender Therapy;[11] Thinking for A Change;[12] Cage Your Rage;[13] parenting classes; and has a law library and legal writers program.