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Since 1852, the department has activated thirty-one prisons across the state. CDCR's history dates back to 1912, when the agency was called California State Detentions Bureau. In 1951 it was renamed California Department of Corrections. In 2004 it was renamed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Prisons in California. 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]
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. CDCR both owns and operates 34 of the state prisons; it additionally operates California City Correctional Facility ...
In response to the lawsuit, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation agreed to distribute a memo to its staff instructing them to be "more protective" of visitors undergoing ...
California's free prison phone calls are among a series of recent changes to overhaul Folsom State Prison, pictured, and the rest of the state's corrections system. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Brian Cates. California Correctional Institution (CCI) is a supermax state prison in the city of Tehachapi in southern California. CCI is sometimes referred to as "Tehachapi prison" or "Tehachapi". [2][3] As stated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, its overall mission is "to incarcerate and control felons, while ...
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation a chair is removed from the death penalty chamber at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., March 13, 2019.
The California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), previously known as the California Youth Authority (CYA), was a division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that provided education, training, and treatment services for California 's most serious youth offenders, until its closure in 2023.