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CDCR Peace Officers are trained to become Sworn Peace Officers of the State of California at the Basic Correctional Peace Officer Academy located in Galt, California. Cadets must complete a 13-week formal and comprehensive training program. The curriculum consists of 640 hours (four months) of training.
In response to firefighter labor shortages during World War II, the Rainbow Conservation Camp was established as the first permanent fire camp, in 1946. It was modeled after New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The program grew to 16 camps throughout California in the 40s and 50s, including the first youth camps.
The Correctional Training Facility covers 680 acres (280 ha). As of 2006–2007, there was total number of 1,643 staff and an annual budget of US$150 million. [citation needed] On April 13, 2021, CDCR announced that the Southern Facility would close by July 2022 due to a decreased minimum security inmate population. [5]
[3] [6] Former guards, previously privately contracted, transferred to become state correctional officers after eight weeks of training. [3] CAC was the only CDCR state prison under this arrangement; all other state prisons are both owned and operated by CDCR. All inmates were moved out by November 2023. [7]
During that year, the monthly salary of a prisoner working in the bakery was between $90 ($125.75 when adjusted for inflation) and $100 ($139.72 when adjusted for inflation). KPBS said that bakery jobs were "desirable" compared to clerk and custodial jobs, which pay a monthly salary between $24 and $48.
The current budget, for fiscal year 2022-23, included $14 billion for CDCR. Newsom’s administration has already decided to shut down three California prisons to save money .
Only two out of 20 reviewed employees had completed required training on child abuse and incident reporting during their first two weeks on the job, as required by the state. The review also found that staff at Thompson badly neglected preparing juveniles for release, in one case failing to notify the state social services agency about the ...
When Christina Cardenas visited her husband in 2019 at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, she was forced to undergo a traumatic, hours-long cavity search that involved her ...