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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.
California Men's Colony: CMC San Luis Obispo: 1954 Yes Yes 3,838 3,727 97.1% California Rehabilitation Center: CRC Riverside: 1962 Yes 2,491 3,341 134.1% The facility, formerly a Naval hospital, was donated by the federal government in 1962. Women were incarcerated at CRC until 2007. California State Prison, Centinela: CEN Imperial: 1993 2,308 ...
Founded by Job Harriman & other members of the California Llano del Rio colony who relocated to Louisiana. Holy City: California William E. Riker: 1919 1959 Founded by a sect that promoted celibacy, temperance and a segregationist interpretation of Christianity. Druid Heights: California Elsa Gidlow Isabel Quallo Roger Somers 1954 1987 Bohemian ...
The state is closing a major portion of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, officials announced Tuesday. As part of a string of reductions statewide, the lower-security West Facility ...
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 ...
The lower-security West Facility was repurposed as part of the prison in 1954.
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.
Among those working around the clock to contain about 7,000 blazes in California are approximately 3,100 inmates trained as wildland firefighters.