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Proposed Budget Foresee Closing Some Notorious Prisons
It is not going to save a lot of money but planned prison closures include Pelican Bay and Chino among other high profile prisons.
CDCR facility closures throughout the state will result in $150 million in ongoing General Fund savings. This will impact employment opportunities within impacted cities.
These facilities include:
- Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe — March 2025
- California City Correctional Facility — March 2024
- Deactivation of specified facilities within six prisons by the end of 2023
- California Rehabilitation Center — Norco
- California Institution for Men — Chino
- California Correctional Institution — Tehachapi
- Pelican Bay State Prison — Crescent City
- California Men’s Colony — San Luis Obispo
- Folsom Women’s Facility — Folsom
Activists immediately pushed for more.
“More prison closures must happen in California,” said Amber-Rose Howard, executive director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), adding, “We’re calling on the legislature and Gov. Newsom to adopt such a roadmap, directly informed by the community.”
CURB said the state’s nonpartisan “Legislative Analyst’s Office produced a report in 2020 that outlined at least $1.5 billion annually in savings if California committed to closing five prisons by 2025.”
CURB’s released an analysis outlining savings from closing 10 prisons, detailing “approximately a $1.3 billion reduction in infrastructure and capital outlay spending and an additional $1.5 billion in prison operating expenses annually.”
We will have more on this later in the week.
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