California’s prison population reduction plan has been fueling prison closures for the past two years.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Tuesday, Dec. 6, announced it will close two prisons — one in Blythe and another in Kern County that is the state’s last privately run prison — and deactivate facilities at six other prisons due to budget cuts and an inmate population reduction plan.
In addition to closing Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe and the California City Correctional Facility in Kern County, the CDCR will deactivate facilities at Chino Institution for Men, California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, California Correctional Institution in Tehachipi, Folsom Women’s Facility, Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, and California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo.
CDCR officials could not say Tuesday what the prison closures and facility deactivations mean in annual savings, or whether it expects any employee layoffs and/or buyouts.The CDCR plans to close Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in March 2025.
Representatives at CoreCivic, which along with GEO Group is one of the largest operators of private prisons in the industry, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.when Newsom vowed, in his inaugural address, “to end the outrage that is private prisons.” Representatives from the GEO Group, which sued Newsom following passage of AB 32 and operates two immigration detention facilities in California, including thePrison population dropping
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