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  2. Pelican Bay State Prison - Wikipedia

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    The prison is located in a detached section of Crescent City, several miles north of the main urban area and just south of the Oregon border. [4] Pelican Bay State Prison opened in 1989. It covers 275 acres (111 ha), and grounds and operations are physically divided. An X-shaped cluster of buildings comprise a quarter of the prison's facilities ...

  3. California Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    Warden. 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 ...

  4. Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center - Wikipedia

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    Known as "SuperMax" and distinct from the North Facility mentioned previously, the North County Correctional Facility (NCCF), built in 1990, is considered a state-of-the-art maximum-security jail offering vocational training in printing, bakery production, and clothes manufacturing. It also includes a 16-bed hospital dormitory.

  5. Supermax prison - Wikipedia

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    Supermax prison. ADX Florence. A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries. The objective is to provide long-term, segregated housing for inmates classified as the ...

  6. List of United States federal prisons - Wikipedia

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    The most restrictive facility in the federal prison system is USP Florence ADMAX, the federal supermax prison, which holds inmates who are considered the most dangerous and in need of the tightest controls. USP Leavenworth, USP Lewisburg, USP Lompoc, and USP Marion were originally operated as high-security facilities but have since been ...

  7. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [a l k a ˈ t ɾ a θ] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...

  8. Danny Masterson Moved to Minimum Security Prison to ... - AOL

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    Danny Masterson has been transferred to a minimum-security prison after a brief stay in a maximum-security facility, Us Weekly can confirm.. Masterson, 47, was moved to California’s Men’s ...

  9. List of California state prisons - Wikipedia

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    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 ...