A June 2021 photo of the Newberry Correctional Facility, a minimum security state prison in Newberry, Mich. The prison is built on what used to be the Newberry State Hospital, an asylum that closed in 1992. (Wikimedia Commons)
LANSING, MI — Michigan environmental regulators are fining contractors and their own peers in the state facilities management department following a botched Upper Peninsula asylum demolition in which asbestos debris was dumped in a wilderness area instead of a landfill.
The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) is pursuing a $5,000 fine against the Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) after inspections this spring turned up violations at the former Newberry State Hospital demolition.
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