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In response to a federal order to reduce overcrowding at the state's prison facilities, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation started leasing the facility in 2013 for $28.5 million yearly. [3] [6] Former guards, previously privately contracted, transferred to become state correctional officers after eight weeks of training ...
Oregon State Correctional Institution (OSCI) is a 33-acre (130,000 m 2) medium security men's prison, located in Salem, Oregon, United States and operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections. The prison was established by an act of the Oregon State Legislature in 1955 and opened in 1959. [ 1 ]
Idaho State Correctional Institution (ISCI), also referred to as "The Yard," is an Idaho Department of Correction state prison for men in unincorporated Ada County, Idaho, near Kuna. [2] Located in the desert five miles south of the Boise Airport, it is one of a six residential detention facilities known as the "South Boise Prison Complex."
Joseph Harp Correctional Center (JHCC) is an Oklahoma Department of Corrections state prison for male inmates located in Lexington, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The medium-security facility opened in September 1978. [3] JHCC was named for Joseph Harp. who served as warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory from 1949 to 1969. Regarded by his ...
The 61-building medical complex was built in response to two federal class action civil rights lawsuits (Plata v.Schwarzenegger and Coleman v. Schwarzenegger), after which a federal court in Sacramento ruled that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's medical and mental health services violated the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution's prohibition on cruel ...
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County , New York, US. The prison, in the Town of Malone , [ 1 ] was the first New York State prison built as a supermax .
On January 24, 2024, Governor Healey announced that the state Department of Corrections planned to close the prison by summertime, citing a decline in the statewide prison population and an effort to curb state spending in the face of declining tax revenues. The facility officially closed on July 17, 2024. [2] [11]