by Ellen Craeger
Detroit Free Press Travel Writer
About 250 guards at State Prison of Southern Michigan fired tear gas at the 1,000 prisoners.
Visitors now get a chance to see 7 Block, part of the former State Prison of Southern Michigan. The tour of 7 Block was added last year, boosting prison tourism in Jackson. / MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI/DFP
Judy Gail Krasnow takes visitors back in time to experience another way of life on the Jackson Historic Prison Tour. Krasnow, in front of a mural designed by Jean Weir and Hector Trujillo, hosted just 400 tourists in 2008 but had 3,200 last year. / MIKE BROOKBANK/DETROIT FREE PRESS
Art is displayed at this studio in the historic state prison. This room would have been about two cells. / MIKE BROOKBANK/DETROIT FREE PRESS
Some visitors come by the busload. More than 40 people from a senior center in Portage visited Wednesday. / MIKE BROOKBANK/DETROIT FREE PRESS