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California Men's Colony (CMC) is an American male-only state prison located northwest of the city of San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo County, California, along the central California coast approximately halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The state is closing a major portion of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, officials announced Tuesday. ... supporting 1,500 good-paying jobs,” the Regional Economic Action ...
Among those working around the clock to contain about 7,000 blazes in California are approximately 3,100 inmates trained as wildland firefighters.
The lower-security West Facility was repurposed as part of the prison in 1954.
Mexico gained its independence from Spain, and from 1821 to 1846 California (called Alta California by 1824) was under Mexican rule. The Mexican National Congress passed the Colonization Act of 1824 in which large sections of unoccupied land were granted to individuals, and in 1833 the government secularized missions and consequently many civil authorities at the time confiscated the land from ...
A detachment of California Volunteer cavalry and infantry first established Camp Wright at Warner's Ranch near Warner Springs, in October 1861. The cold and windy conditions in the higher altitude of the exposed San Jose Valley caused the commander to change its site to the more sheltered Oak Grove location in November.
Many of the colonizers found the weather too cold, given their expectations fueled by advertisements of sunny California. [19] Many of the tracts were planted with orchards, and the area was referred to as the Bartlett Pear Belt. An 1889 Chicago Park Colony ad. The railroad station at Storms Station was renamed Chicago Park Station. [10]
Masterson, 47, was moved to California’s Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo to serve out his 30-year sentence for rape, according to court documents obtained by Us on Monday, February 19.