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Pleasant Valley State Prison: PVSP Fresno: 1994 2,308 3,062 132.7% Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility: RJD San Diego: 1987 Yes 2,992 3,806 127.2% Salinas Valley State Prison: SVSP Monterey: 1996 2,452 2,877 117.3% San Quentin State Prison: SQ Marin: 1852 Yes Not formally designated, but has substantial reentry programming 3,082 3,776 122.5%
The CDCR began converting the prison into a facility for low-risk male inmates in 2012. [19] The conversion was completed in January 2013, with the last female inmates in the facility transferred to the nearby Central California Women's Facility and California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino, San Bernardino County, California.
Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem (2,194 inmate capacity) Powder River Correctional Facility, Baker City (366 inmate capacity) Santiam Correctional Institution, Salem (440 inmate capacity) Shutter Creek Correctional Institution, North Bend (260 inmate capacity) (closed December 2021 [2]) South Fork Forest Camp, Tillamook (200 inmate capacity)
San Quentin State Prison. 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]
The surrounding housing units hold level-4 and level-3 inmates, the two highest security rankings. M yard is a level-1 yard which houses approximately 200 inmates. The prison had a gymnasium which, due to the prison's over-crowding, at one time had been converted into a dormitory but due to inmate population reductions was shut down around 2008.
Aerial view of United States Penitentiary Victorville. USP Victorville is 630,000 square feet (59,000 m 2) and is designed to house 960 male inmates in six housing units.. Six V-shaped buildings (units 1–3 on east side, units 4–6 on west side) facing each other and a larger maintenance building surround a central yard with a tower in the mid
In July 2013, many inmates at COR participated in a state-wide hunger strike protesting the use of solitary confinement. [24] Billy Michael Sell, an inmate in COR who had been participating in the hunger strike, committed suicide by hanging himself while in a Security Housing Unit (SHU). [25] He had been protesting from July 8 to July 21.
Ironwood State Prison (ISP) is a state prison located south of Interstate 10, in a detached section of Blythe, California, that lies west of the main portion of the city.It is located in eastern Riverside County, California, adjacent to Chuckawalla Valley State Prison.