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Wasco State Prison-Reception Center (WSP) is a 634-acre (257 ha) state prison located in Wasco in Kern County, California. The Wasco facility was the first of two reception centers in Kern County.
California's only death row for men is at San Quentin. The prison was constructed by incarcerated men on the Waban, a ship anchored in San Francisco Bay and California's first prison. Sierra Conservation Center: SCC Tuolumne: 1965 Yes 3,836 4,012 104.6% Valley State Prison: VSP Madera: 1995 Yes 1,980 2,971 150.1% Wasco State Prison: WSP Kern ...
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]
Feb. 27—State prison officials confirmed two facilities in Kern County can start taking prisoners again, as local law enforcement officials worked last week to address a backlog of hundreds of ...
After the closure, California operates 34 prisons. California’s corrections budget is more than $18 billion for the fiscal year that begins Friday. The corrections department is expected to ...
Wasco (formerly, Dewey and Deweyville) [7] is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Wasco is located 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Bakersfield , [ 7 ] at an elevation of 328 feet (100 m). [ 5 ]
A third of California’s adult prisons provide an “inadequate” level of medical care to their inmate patients, according to the most recent inspections from the state’s prison watchdog ...
After the 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21, "made the brick dormitories unsafe", the institution was closed and the 417 prisoners were sent to the new California Institution for Women in Corona. [11] Plans of the prison drawn by Alfred Eichler in 1930. The prison was reopened in 1954 as CCI, an all-men's prison. [5]