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| No more pain and suffering on the mountain. |
I bound, blessed and sealed this place over a year ago. Twice.
Six months later, they announce total closure. The last section closes this year, 2024
Don
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California’s state prison population has dropped by about 22 percent in the last four years and on Dec. 6 the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced plans to close two more prisons — including the California City Correctional Facility. The department also plans to deactivate parts of six other prisons, including Facility D at the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi.
Facility D, also known as CCI’s medium facility, is the second-oldest part of the prison. It opened in 1967. According to Warden Brian Cates, the facility at CCI is slated to close by the end of June 2023. The number of staff positions that will be lost has not yet been made public.
The state plans to end the contract for the leased California City facility in March 2024. A spokesperson for the CDCR provided recent documents showing that the California City facility had a total of 532 budgeted positions, of which nine were management, 362 uniformed custody, 21 non-uniformed custody, 113 support staff, 23 education and four building trades.
The other prison to be closed is Chuckawalla State Prison — one of two facilities in Blythe.
And what the department calls deactivations are planned at six prisons. In addition to Facility D at CCI, these are Facility A at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, Facility D at the California Institution for Men in Chino, Facility C at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, the West Facility at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo and the entire women’s facility in Folsom.
https://www.tehachapinews.com/news/state-plans-to-close-prison-at-california-city-and-facility-d-at-cci/article_8c57c28e-79ad-11ed-85ce-474f9b0572f1.html