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CDCR is the 3rd largest law enforcement agency in the United States behind the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the New York City Police Department, which employ approximately 66,000 federal officers and 42,000 police officers respectively. CDCR correctional officers are sworn law enforcement officers with peace officer powers.
In an effort to relieve California prison overcrowding that peaked in 2006, CDCR began housing California prisoners in prisons in other states. In 2009, CDCR began to phase out its use of out-of-state facilities, and it stopped incarcerating people in out-of-state facilities in 2019. [7] [8] The facilities were:
CDCR owns and operates 34 prisons throughout the state and operates 1 prison leased from a private company. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had a $15.8B budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, which was 7.4% of the state budget , [ 2 ] and $13.6 billion ($13.3 billion General Fund and $347 million other funds) for CDCR ...
When Christina Cardenas visited her husband in 2019 at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, she was forced to undergo a traumatic, hours-long cavity search that involved her ...
Two California state correctional officers who work at prisons in Folsom were arrested in the last week on charges of sex crimes against children.
The Special Service Unit (SSU) is a specialized division within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) [1] that functions as its dedicated special operations group. This unit is composed of highly trained special agents who are strategically assigned to various field offices across the state of California.
The current budget, for fiscal year 2022-23, included $14 billion for CDCR. Newsom’s administration has already decided to shut down three California prisons to save money .
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 state terminated its lease so the prison will be effectively closed by March 2024.