#Norco state prison free
Valenzuela may be reached at (760) 951-6276 or at complete stories every day with the "exactly as printed" Daily Press E-edition, only $5 per month! Click here to try it free for 7 days. If the move is approved, the Norco prison will be shut down by 2016.īeatriz E. The prison houses 3,900 inmates and employs 1,050 people with a payroll of $76.8 million, prison officials said. It's the oldest prison in the state system, and many within the department have called it inefficient and said it's cost-prohibitive to maintain.īy closing it, authorities estimate the state will save about $160 million a year in operating costs. The Norco facility first opened in 1928 as the Lake Norconian Club luxury hotel and has housed medium-security offenders since 1980. Shutting down the prison is part of a large-scale reorganization plan of the state's prison system that's expected to save California $1.5 billion annually. Also, the ongoing operating costs of dorm versus celled facilities reduces the long term costs of these beds.
Placing these new beds at existing facilities is more efficient because it takes advantage of the existing infrastructure and management of an established facility, the report states. Its annex will open in the summer of 2014 to create a unified Stockton complex.Įach new facility will house approximately 800 inmates. The California Health Care Facility in Stockton will house inmates requiring long-term medical care and intensive mental health, according to a reports from the CDCR entitled, "The Future of California Corrections." It's slated for completion during the summer of 2013. The prison system's plan includes creating new, more efficient level II dorm capacity, such as is planned to take place at the DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facility annex in Stockton and up to three other existing prisons. "When the California Rehabilitation Center at Norco closes, its inmates will be transferred to other institutions, including the new Level 2 infill projects that we are also planning to build inside existing institutions."
"No inmates would be released early," said Jeffrey Callison, press secretary for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in an email. As California prison officials ready to possibly shutter the state prison in Norco to save $160 million a year, many are left wondering what will happen to the nearly 4,000 inmates housed at the rehabilitation center.
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