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San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [3] place of San Quentin in Marin County. Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San Quentin is the oldest prison ...
FSP is the only California State Prison currently housing men and women. High Desert State Prison: HDSP Lassen: 1995 Yes 2,324 3,286 141.4% Ironwood State Prison: ISP Riverside: 1994 Yes 2,200 3,203 145.6% Kern Valley State Prison: KVSP Kern: 2005 2,448 3,534 144.4% Mule Creek State Prison: MCSP Amador: 1987 3,284 3,948 120.2% North Kern State ...
Before the prison opened in 1993, Los Angeles County hosted no prisons but accounted for forty percent of California's state-prison inmates. [9] "Most of Lancaster's civic leaders and residents" opposed the building of the prison, and four inmates escaped from LAC in its first year of operation. [10]
Both FSP and California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) share the mailing address: Represa, CA 95671. [8] [9] Represa (translated as "dam" from the Spanish language) is the name given in 1892 to the State Prison post office because of its proximity to a dam on the American River that was under construction at the time.
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]
In 1851, California activated its first state-run institution. This institution was a 268-ton wooden ship named The Waban , and was anchored in the San Francisco Bay . [ 4 ] The prison ship housed 30 inmates who subsequently constructed San Quentin State Prison , which opened in 1852 with approximately 68 inmates.
Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJD) is a California state prison in unincorporated southern San Diego County, California, [2] near San Diego. [3] [4] It is operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The facility sits on 780 acres (320 ha). It is the only state prison in San Diego County.