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Luis Bracamontes. BG0828. Convicted of murdering two police officers in 2014. [12][13] Dean Carter. C97919. Convicted of murdering 4 people in 1984, and suspected of killing at least one other person. [14][15] Steven David Catlin. D32989. Convicted of poisoning his two wives and his adoptive mother.
This is a list of state prisons in California operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). [1] CDCR operates 34 adult prisons in California, with a design capacity of 85,083 incarcerated people. CDCR both owns and operates 34 of the state prisons; it additionally operates California City Correctional Facility ...
Ken Clark. California State Prison, Corcoran (COR) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Corcoran, in Kings County, California. It is also known as Corcoran State Prison, CSP-C, CSP-COR, CSP-Corcoran, and Corcoran I. The facility is just north of the newer California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran ...
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [3] place of San Quentin in Marin County. Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San Quentin is the oldest prison ...
The former County Jail #3 closed in 2006, after over 70 years of service, replaced by the modern direct-supervision facility, County Jail 5. The 1934 San Bruno jail was demolished in 2012. Most San Francisco county jail inmates, like 60% of the U.S. jail population and 70% of inmates in California jails, have not been convicted of any crime.
Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 132 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois.
Prisons in California. The California State Prison System is a system of prisons, fire camps, contract beds, reentry programs, and other special programs administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Division of Adult Institutions to incarcerate approximately 117,000 people as of April 2020. [1]
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...