Heyns, Garrett

Abstract The collection details the various facets of the career of Garrett Heyns (1891-1969) including particularly his service for the Michigan Department of Corrections; his attempt at politics in West Michigan as a Democrat; his work in Washington, which includes raw data on his 1966 survey of the administrative situations in the fifty states and the District of Columbia; and his work on the Joint Commission on Correctional Manpower and Training during the 1960s. The material provides insight...