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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.
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.
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]
In the 1950s, an officer, despondent over working conditions at San Quentin State Prison, committed suicide.This prompted Officer Al Mello and eight fellow officers, five of which were Correctional Lieutenants concerned with the pay scale and working conditions, to start traveling to the three existing state prisons (Folsom, Soledad, and San Quentin) to rally support for the creation of a ...
Howard, of the prison closure advocacy group, said Newsom proposes to add another $500 million to CDCR’s budget despite the continued projected decline in the inmate population.
[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]
The ordeal began on a September morning in 2019 when she said she drove four hours to visit her husband, Carlos Eugene Cardenas, who is in prison in Tehachapi for armed robbery.
SSU serves as the primary investigative unit for CDCR on cases that evolve from prison or parolees or have a direct nexus to CDCR. According to its official description, SSU "conducts the major criminal investigations..., criminal apprehension efforts of prison escapees and parolees wanted for serious and violent felonies, is the primary departmental gang management unit, conducts complex gang ...