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  2. List of California state prisons - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Prisons in California - Wikipedia

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    San Quentin State Prison. 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]

  4. Pelican Bay State Prison - Wikipedia

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    After Pelican Bay State Prison opened in 1989, guards eager to assert their dominance over the inmates established a culture of violence. Inmates in the Security Housing Unit were beaten, tied and left naked, or subjected to staged "gladiator fights" by guards who would intentionally release two prisoners from enemy gangs and then shoot at the prisoners after they began fighting. [7]

  5. California Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    The prison was reopened in 1954 as CCI, an all-men's prison. [5] In 1985–1986, maximum and medium security facilities were added to it. [5] The Southern Maximum Security Complex at Tehachapi was "touted as the most advanced in the country", but was also "called a 'white elephant' and a 'Cadillac' because it took so long to build and cost so ...

  6. Prison considered charging inmates who burned themselves in ...

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    The Red Onion Mountain Maximum Security Prison in Wise County, Va., in 1997. ... Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while ...

  7. United States Penitentiary, Victorville - Wikipedia

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    The United States Penitentiary, Victorville (USP Victorville) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in California.It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville (FCC Victorville) and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

  8. Two inmates killed at California state prisons within 24 ...

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    Around 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, two inmates attacked Felipe Rodriguez, 36, with "an inmate-made weapon on a maximum security general population yard," corrections officials said. Rodriguez was ...

  9. California State Prison, Los Angeles County - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, by 2000 city residents' opinions of the prison had improved so much that a proposal to increase the proportion of maximum-security inmates received little criticism. [ 10 ] A 2006–2007 conversion "of roughly half of" LAC's facilities decreased the number of maximum-security inmates and increased the number of reception center ...